GlaxoSmithKline Signs $300 Million Deal With Big Pharma

[Mystic Wanderer]

I tried to tell you all not to use those DNA testing sites, like 23andMe and Ancestry.com. You never know what their real agenda is when tempting you to turn over your DNA.
I hate to say I told you so, but...

I TOLD YOU SO! 

It might be time for people to reconsider before they spit in a tube. Online genetic testing services are wildly popular. Many people use services such as 23andMe and Ancestry.com to learn about their ancestral pasts. Many also use these services to gain more profound insights into their biological makeup, which is often used to assess risk for degenerative diseases, such as cancer. This information offers use for more trivial insights, such as a person’s rate of metabolism in concern with substances like caffeine.

Pharmaceutical companies with access to such genetic information would be able to develop new products in more efficient ways.

GlaxoSmithKline, seeking to take advantage of just that, has announced a four year deal with 23andMe that allows them access to everyone’s genetic information for precisely the purposes pertaining to drug research.

Drug research?  To develop new products in more efficient ways?

I'm sorry, but I just don't trust ANYTHING Big Pharma has it's fingers in.  They may be developing drugs to be more efficient, but my bet is that it's to be "more efficient" in keeping people sick so they can continue lining their pockets with our money; but they DO NOT want people getting well, trust me!
Think logically! If the majority of sick people got well, that would put them out of business, right?

In some ways, it was obtuse or naive to assume the online genetic testing frenzy was ever to end well.

Do they see what's coming too?    

Essentially, UK based GlaxoSmithKline, one of the world’s largest pharmaceutical ventures, just paid $300 million to sift through thousands upon thousands of genetic records of people who are primarily unaware or apathetic to the consequences of such activity.

Concerning privacy, it isn’t difficult to see the severe breach in consumer trust. GlaxoSmithKline nor the Mountain View, California based 23andMe signed into a massive scale deal without a clear interpretation that 23andMe’s user agreements and privacy policy were in order. But an advantageous positioned gained through confusing and often distracting user agreements shouldn’t take away from the unsavory conflict of interest happening here.

You have to read the fine print Folks!

GlaxoSmithKline is using the 23andMe deal as a way to breath more life into its drug research programs; an initiative ran by its chief scientific officer and president, Hal Barron. Barron, as GSK’s good fortune would have it, is a former Genentech executive. In other words, Barron has an excellent understanding of the importance of DNA data to drug research.

Another way for them to keep their drug research programs open, all the while PRETENDING to be hunting cures.
And I have a bridge for sale in the NV desert.  Anyone interested?

The ability to access such high volumes of saliva data is likely worth much more than $300 million. The variety of genes, the uniqueness, and variance of individual profiles is something rarely achieved by request or payment for such things.

Worse more, 23andMe has become a blatant, unabashed wing of the pharmaceutical industry. The company has current deals with Pfizer and Lundbeck.
Additionally, some believe that 23andMe may transition into the drug development sphere in a more independent undertaking. Like GSK, 23andMe also has a former Genentech executive, Richard Scheller, running a part of their operation. Scheller and Barron have a relationship that goes back before either worked for their current companies.

Translation: Don't trust anyone in the pharmaceutical industrial complex. They lie, just like their political cohorts.
Hmm... Scheller and Barron. I'm going to have to do some deep-dive research on those guys.

Scrolling on down the article, if you have used these companies for DNA testing, there is a way to delete your information from being seen.

To delete your DNA sample, click the DNA button on the top of Ancestry.com, then visit SETTINGS, then on to DELETE TEST RESULTS.

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Good luck Folks. I hope they don't use your DNA in  some monstrosity experiment. Maybe there will be a "good guy" working there who uses yours to actually help mankind in some way.