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Re:A new book critiques medicine by neural_thing on Sunday July 14, 2019 @03:06PM (#20435248)
To be fair, ubiome is a fraud, and (anecdote) 23andme made a mistake in reading my genome and their data showed that I had an incredibly deadly cancer predisposition (Li-Fraumeni), which a reputable medical lab showed to be false.
Re:A new book critiques medicine by wolco on Sunday July 14, 2019 @06:38PM (#20436695)
ubiome is a ycombinator company.

Why would you call them a fraud. I've done a number of tests over a period after antiobiotics and I definately saw the change into diversity correlate with the foods I introduced.

Re:A new book critiques medicine by detaro on Sunday July 14, 2019 @06:46PM (#20436751)
They've been raided by the FBI for insurance fraud, they reportedly conducted "tests" using samples that hadn't been stored properly, their CEOs/founders have resigned, they've let half their staff go recently and currently are not capable of actually doing testing ...

That's not saying that they never produced useful data, but ...

Re:A new book critiques medicine by baby on Sunday July 14, 2019 @11:22PM (#20437882)
You'd be surprised how many scams Ycombinator accepts. Quantstamp cough cough.