From: laidlaws@hotkey.net.au   
      
   Firstly, I am a number-cruncher only when I am bored and have nothing   
   better to do.  I always think of the man who discovered he was related   
   to Carthaginian sailors and was _so_ pleased.  [The Carthaginians were   
   good as sailors, but for their army, they engaged mercenaries.]   
      
   Secondly, DNA testing has often done more harm than good.  In one case,   
   the applicant discovered she had none of her father's DNA.  In a case I   
   have just been reading, a couple decided to take a DNA test.  It showed   
   that the male partner was related to a serial killer.  His g-f couldn't   
   handle this, and left him.  Maybe she was looking for a way to split,   
   and this was her excuse, as the comforters on social media suggested.   
   But in both cases, there were facts that it was better not to know.  I   
   have enough inherited illnesses; I don't need to know about any others.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)