Counsyl Genetics: The Truth

Oh… the “raw facts” about Counsyl are already freely available in a well documented scientific paper hosted at Nature Biotechnology which precisely describes Counsyl’s medical genomic testing product and its intended application. A layperson’s summary of Counsyl is, oh… already freely available on Counsyl’s website.

What did you expect? A movie poster?

(Andrew, don’t you have something intelligent to say about Counsyl?)

No, because:

• I’m not Counsyl
• All the relevant information about Counsyl is already freely available
• Oh… you can JUST BUY THE STUPID THING YOURSELF ON THE COUNSYL WEBSITE RIGHT NOW and… IT’S EXACTLY AS DESCRIBED which is a BORING MAIL ORDER MEDICAL TEST WHICH COSTS A FEW HUNDRED DOLLARS. Since Counsyl neither ports your existing library of sega genesis games so that you can smugly reminisce how easy it always really was beat Sonic the Hedgehog now that you’re almost thirty nor downsamples your favorite top 40 RnB tunz into twenty second loops on your mobile even though you have purposely selected from five to ten years ago so that you can feel ironic because you’re “hip” to the “whole thing,” I don’t know how Counsyl is of any general interest … unless there is a movie poster?… no, no movie poster. so… tldr; go away

I have no idea what else I’m supposed to say. I think that the Counsyl product as it is now is a finished product, I think that everybody should get one, but I think that the Counsyl engineers should find something else to do because I can assure you —from personal experience— that the Counsyl website —by the simple virtues that it A) exists and B) usually works— is already better and easier than anything else I have to use in my medical office. My problem is that EVERYBODY ELSE in medicine is so horrible, and that we at the medical office only have a limited amount of attention we can levy per patient, so preventative medicine beyond “stop smoking” and “lose weight” and “you are going to die; here’s a thing that probably preventativizes that; you can pick it up at the pharmacy counter next to the cigarette case inside the box store that had to add a second soda isle —plus checkout coolers— to accomodate all the new flavors energy drinks because bulk soda which already had its own double sided isle”

…is effectively noise.