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Astral Codex Ten Podcast

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Genetic Testing - A Farce or a Tragic Disaster?

Lavaza is a weird but successful way of adapting to an increasingly crazy medical system. The high cost of BRCA testing probably turns off a lock of women who would otherwise get the test and some of them probably develop preventable breast cancer. Many of genetics will sequence two genes for three thousand dollars. Douglas Knight more expert in this area than I discusses some of the subtleties here.

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