{"id":35517,"date":"2011-05-22T15:42:57","date_gmt":"2011-05-22T15:42:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/don%e2%80%99t-buy-aibiotech-sports-x-factor-kit-gene-expression\/"},"modified":"2011-05-22T15:42:57","modified_gmt":"2011-05-22T15:42:57","slug":"don%e2%80%99t-buy-aibiotech-sports-x-factor-kit-gene-expression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/don%e2%80%99t-buy-aibiotech-sports-x-factor-kit-gene-expression.php","title":{"rendered":"Don\u2019t buy AIBioTech Sports X Factor kit! | Gene Expression"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&rsquo;ve been pretty vocal about the impending specter of <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/2011\/03\/genetic-paternalism-the-f-d-a\/\">genetic paternalism<\/a> in relation to personal genomics, which I believe to be futile in the long term, and likely to squelch innovation in the United States in the short term. Like any new product category there&rsquo;s a lot of hype and confusion in the area of personal genomics, <strong>but I think it&rsquo;s important that we allow some mistakes and misfires to occur.<\/strong> Innovation and creativity isn&rsquo;t failure-free.<\/p><p>With that said, I also think it is incumbent upon the personal genomics community, if there is such a thing, to &ldquo;police&rdquo; the flow of information. I have seen references in the media to a new personal genomics kit, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sportsxfactor.com\/Test-Information\/SportsXFactor.aspx\">Sports X Factor<\/a>, selling for $180, from <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.aibiotech.com\/global\/company\/about-us.aspx\">AIBioTech<\/a>. My initial intent was to ignore this, as there is real science and tech to be covered. This is just another case of a biotech firm trying to leverage public confusion and gullibility into revenue. But if I think such a thing, <strong>I should make my opinion known, shouldn&rsquo;t I?<\/strong><\/p><p>So here&rsquo;s the bottom line: <strong>If you don&rsquo;t want to waste $180, don&rsquo;t purchase a <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sportsxfactor.com\/Test-Information\/SportsXFactor.aspx\">Sports X Factor<\/a> kit, it&rsquo;s just not worth the ...<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/f2b77_Fe7phKrAUwk\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/f2b77_g_GxNraEYGw\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&rsquo;ve been pretty vocal about the impending specter of genetic paternalism in relation to personal genomics, which I believe to be futile in the long term, and likely to squelch innovation in the United States in the short term. Like &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/don%e2%80%99t-buy-aibiotech-sports-x-factor-kit-gene-expression.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35517"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35517\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}