DNA
Deoxyribonucleic acid or DNA is a thread-like chain of nucleotides carrying the genetic instructions used in the growth, development, functioning and reproduction of all known living organisms and many viruses. DNA and ribonucleic acid (RNA) are nucleic acids; alongside proteins, lipids and complex carbohydrates (polysaccharides), they are one of the four major types of macromolecules that are essential for all known forms of life. Most DNA molecules consist of two biopolymer strands coiled around each other to form a double helix. - Wikipedia
On February 28, 1953 the DNA structure was discovered by Cambridge University scientists Crick, Watson, and Franklin. They subsequently went on to win a Nobel Prize for their ground breaking research.
Geneology
Oral history - stories told by matriarchs of families
Court records - as documentation and the legal system in this country began taking shape it was easier to keep and maintain court records. Many families in the rural communities were not as fortunate to have birth records and wedding records so to some degree they were marginalized from having accurate records. In 2018, we are only 2 or 3 generations removed from slavery. Slaves and slave owners did not necessarily keep copious records of the family history of the slaves.
Bibles - Many families passed down their histories in the back spines or written on notes buried within the pages of the "family bible". I imagine this would also apply to families who have different faiths such as Islam and Judaism.
The Church of Jesus Christ Latter Day Saints are very good at geneology.
What you have been told about you, your family history, and the history of your country, may not be true. But you have heard those falsehoods ever since your were a child, and so as an adult those facts that you learned as a child, whether they be true or not, shape your behaviors and decisions.
Julia Roberts isn't ACTUALLY Julia Roberts.
Genealogy also known as family history, is the study of families and the tracing of their lineages and history.
I quite frankly do not know my own geneology. I can trace back roots from my moms side of the family. Working backwards we go from Myrtle Beach to Florence to Timmonsville and once we get there it stops.
I do not know my biological father though my favorite aunt was dying to tell me. Apparently something happened and I've decided to leave it alone.
My step father came along when I was 6 months old and remained as my dad until he passed away in 2010. Tracing backwards with him we go through Myrtle Beach to Ahoskie, NC. In Ahoskie his father was a farmer and sharecropper. His father was born free. His father was born a slave. They all remained near the Hertford County area. There is a town called Harrellsville. My step fathers last name is Harrell. On the Mars Hill College campus there is a swimming pool and the building is named Harrell. I am sure I have ties even though I cant see them.
Geneology as a Business
- MyHeritage
- Ancestry
- 23 and Me
We live in an environment where everyone "shares" their information without a question. They give their personal friendships and contacts to social media companies even though these companies are telling them that they are manipulating them like mice in a lab experiment.
Article - "Facebook manipulated more than 600,000 users’ News Feeds to study people’s emotions"
(N = 689,003)
Experimental evidence of massive-scale emotional contagion through social networks
Significance:
"We show, via a massive (N = 689,003) experiment on Facebook, that emotional states can be transferred to others via emotional contagion, leading people to experience the same emotions without their awareness. We provide experimental evidence that emotional contagion occurs without direct interaction between people (exposure to a friend expressing an emotion is sufficient), and in the complete absence of nonverbal cues."
DNA profiling (also called DNA fingerprinting, DNA testing, or DNA typing) is the process of determining an individual's DNA characteristics, called a DNA profile, that is very likely to be different in unrelated individuals, thereby being as unique to individuals as are fingerprints (hence the alternative name for the technique) - Wikipedia
I first heard of Familial DNA while watching a Nancy Grace episode whereby they used it to identify a male who murdered a female jogger in NY.
How it works.
People give their DNA away to companies under the promise that they will learn where they came from.
What is really happening is that people are creating large global databases of Genetic information which will be accessible by doctors, lawyers, Governments, Insurance Companies and HACKERS.
In the News: The Golden State Killer
Law enforcement used "cutting edge" dna technology to find him.
Some family member somewhere submitted DNA to a free - "open source" dna company. Law enforcement went into that database and found a family member related to the Golden State Killer. They subsequently arrested him after renewed interest generated from a TV documentary.
I know what you are thinking, "I have nothing to hide and I have not committed any crimes, so what do I care?"
Have you ever heard of a concept called stop and frisk?
The stop-question-and-frisk program, or stop-and-frisk, in New York City, is a New York City Police Department practice of temporarily detaining, questioning, and at times searching civilians on the street for weapons and other contraband.[1] This is what is known in other places in the United States as the Terry stop. The rules for stop, question, and frisk are found in the state's criminal procedure law section 140.50, and are based on the decision of the US Supreme Court in the case of Terry v. Ohio.[2][3]
12,404 stops were made in 2016.[4] The stop-and-frisk program has previously taken place on a much wider scale. Between 2003 and 2013, over 100,000 stops were made per year, with 685,724 people being stopped at the height of the program in 2011.[4] The program became the subject of a racial profiling controversy.[2][5] The vast majority of those stopped were African-American or Latino, most of whom were aged 14–24.[2][4][5] The racial disparity persists even after controlling for precinct variability and race-specific estimates of crime participation.[6][7] Research suggests that stop-and-frisk had few effects, if any, on crime in New York City. -
Wikipedia
What They Did!
Authorities used a private DNA Database to catch Joseph Deangelo who is the man believed to be the Golden State Killer
How They Did It!
source: Time
The Arrest of the Golden State Killer Puts DNA Sites in the Spotlight
We talked about What DNA is and who discovered it? We also talked about the role DNA plays in Geneology and law enforcement.
Dna testing has come a long way since Click, Watson, and Franklin.
Being able to use DNA to trace your family history and learn a sense of where you come from can have profound changes to a persons perceptions of who they are.
But I caution you to take those reveals with a grain of salt. As with any large sums of data collected about a large population of people, there are always those who are out to exploit that information for their own nefarious causes.
Keep your DNA to yourself, because it is the only thing keeping you from being someone else.
Benjamin Franklin 🖋
How Reliable Is Your Memory source 🔗:TED TALK - Elizabeth Loftus Psychologist Elizabeth Loftus studies memories. More precisely, she studies false memories, when people either remember things that didn't happen or remember them differently from the way they really were. It's more common than you might think, and Loftus shares some startling stories and statistics -- and raises some important ethical questions.
The Central Park Five, the Scottsboro Boys, and the Myth the Bestial Black Man source 🔗:American University Washington College of Law “After interrogations which lasted as long as twenty-eight hours, each of the youngsters confessed to involvement in attacking and raping Meili. None confessed to actually raping her, but each said he had held or hit her, and each blamed the actual rape on one or more of the others. Although each of the defendants later maintained his innocence, insisting that the confessions were coerced, all five were convicted and sentenced to prison terms of between five and fifteen years. The incident lives as one of the most racially divisive in recent American history, and until January 2001, the case was considered closed.”
Trump 1989 interview on the 'Central Park Five' source 🔗:CNNMoney In 1989, after five teenagers were arrested for the rape of a woman in Central Park, Donald Trump took out an ad in The New York Times calling for the death penalty. The men were convicted, but later exonerated. Watch Trump's interview with Larry King.
Trump Makes Outrageous Statement On Central Park 5 source 🔗:The Young Turks, Youtube Publication
On June 18, 2019 President Trump, refused to concede that the Central Park five did not rape Meili even though the DNA and the confession of the actual rapist exonerated the five young boys.
DOUBLE HELIX LAW Forceful DNA Collection from Recalcitrant Prisoners source 🔗:Sites at Penn State What, then, should officials do with recalcitrant prisoners?The Muskegon county prosecutor had an idea. He obtained a search warrant from a magistrate-judge, and state police swooped down on 118 inmates at the Earnest C. Brooks and West Shoreline correctional facilities. The tactic is being touted as a model for the state. This tactic raises two questions. Was it necessary to get the warrant, and should a warrant have been issued? A warrant is what a prosecutor desiring to obtain a sample from an uncooperative suspect during an ongoing investigation might want. If the suspect resisted the order, the police could use reasonable force to execute the order. This procedure does not make a lot of sense, however, when the convicted offender serving his sentence is not a suspect in any other crime. There is no significant fact-based question (such as probable cause) for the magistrate to decide. If the statute authorizes the use of force, no warrant is necessary. If it precludes the use of force, the warrant is inappropriate.
UPDATE
PLEASE STOP!
WHAT HAPPENS NEXT!
Step 1. Trick people into giving up there DNA
How? By giving them "something for nothing", say- a DNA trace program.
Step 2. Bundle DNA samples and sell to the highest bidder
How? put together the DNA and tell tricked people that it will be anonymous and they have nothing to worry about. Sell there DNA to the highest bidder and do not pay the individuals that donated that DNA to the cause. Because the DNA is "packaged" as anonymous, the original DNA holders cannot make a claim against said company. (You would never directly give your DNA to a pharmaceutical/biotechniical company en masse. But you would give it to their intermediary without blinking.
Step 3. Pharmaceutical/BioMedical companies will isolate genes and make patents
Once the developing companies have their source material they will immediately begin sequencing and setting up "cures" based on DNA samples. If you have a particular variation in your DNA that goes against that companies patent, you will be sued. If you get a holistic treatment for your ailment that said companies can directly trace to your DNA, you will be sued. (MONSANTO!)
Companies will charge exorbitant amounts of money for you to have access to said treatments even though there cost is only a fraction of what you are going to have to pay or what will be absorbed by the healthcare system. - Mylan already did it with the Epipen. ( the oversight & government reform cmte hearing exposed her and her company for what they are worth. If you did not watch it, you were being distracted by some Trump foolishness.)
She is a fraud and her whole company is a shell.
UPDATE! Mylan Pharmaceutical closed their PA plant and moved the shell company overseas.
Stop falling for these hucksters and keep your DNA to yourself! They are lying.
Here Comes The Landslide!
23andMe has sold the rights to develop a drug based on its users’ DNA
China is racing to collect Americans DNA Information!
Do you think that global pandemic of the Coronavirus would make a perfect cover to collect, aggregate, and decipher peoples DNA from every corner of the globe at the exact same time?
Update: You think I don't know what I'm talking about? Think again!
China Wants Your Data — And May Already Have It
link: https://www.npr.org/2021/02/24/969532277/china-wants-your-data-and-may-already-have-it
Source: NPR
China knows more about your DNA than you do! Please Stop!
BigPharma's watching
Wait a second! It's also a pharmaceutical company? Did you know that when you spit into the cups?
Please keep your DNA to yourself. Next thing you know, you won't be able to get onto an airplane unless you spit into a tube and hold your arms up and cough. The movie Gattaca comes to mind.
23andMe Is Under Fire. Its Founder Remains ‘Optimistic’
