Cheddar Man (Picture Getty)
Ancestry tests which promise to trace people’s origins back for thousands of years are ‘complete bunkum’, a top DNA expert has said.
Such tests have become popular gifts, with users sending a DNA sample off for analysis.
Dr Tom Booth, who worked on the DNA of Cheddar Man, said that after three centuries, it’s not even possible to say whether someone’s ancestors were, for instance, Viking or Saxon.
The tests are also limited by the fact they use DNA from saliva swabs, rather than drilled from bones, as his team did with Cheddar Man.
Booth said, according to The Telegraph, ‘What I really don’t like about these companies is that they market themselves as linking you to medieval populations, which is complete bunkum, you can’t do that.’
‘The adverts that show they can tell you whether you are Viking or Saxons, I’ve got a problem with that because they can’t.’
‘Because everyone in the 9th century, if they’ve successfully passed on a descendant, is your ancestor.’
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/dna-tests-pro ... 13993.html
Selected comments -
"yep they are im ginger and 6'1 mine came back and said i was chinese"
"Do you thing they are Way Wong?"
"Oh Dear, that’s the end of all the companies offering analysis then"
"There will always be idiots who are easily parted with their money."
"Its just a Con to get a national DNA DATABASE"
"If that's the case then sites such as Ancestry should be made to reimburse all the people who subscribed to this 'service'"
"That's hopefully the end of that disgraceful company who put out the pro-EU tv advert "Together Forever". Not only did they attempt to say we all had 65% European ancestry, but excluded the entire non-European population of the UK entirely. So, pro-EU AND racist. Ancestry.com"
"Does this mean that I can use the race card then? Lol"
"I wonder how long it is before this expert is found dead in a holdall that was zipped up from the inside"
"'Cheddar man' is nothing more than a politically correct, cultural marxist promotion. Same with the 'out of Africa theory'. Liberal academia has hijacked the sciences, including the 'global warming' nonsense."
"but its ok for them to make the claim we were all brown once to push the diversity agenda of lefty verminism"
"They are a con, they tested them with several sets of twins, but used false names...
Their results came back completely different."
"these companies are an utter scam.....i saw a test where three identcal triplets sent off there dna, but changed there names....they all came back with totally different results.....its a scam...who's ever going to check....lol..."
"Similar too the pet one where asked for a pic. Was all rubbish, they tested them and by sending out different dn samples to the pics and it always came back as the visual identity."
"Whatever the case the first Britons weren't black sub saharan africans as has been implied with Cheddar man."
I thought that cheesy man was a woman. Maybe I'm blind; it also looks like the origins of the White Race, as well.
I heard or saw something about fake DNA tests for pets, asking for a picture of the pet. I think someone tested it with a false picture, and the fake results were as the pet in the picture, instead of the actual pet.
Once upon a time, a Black man never saw a White man, and a White man never saw a Black man, and the same is for Asians. Nature knows, has, and does actual diversity correctly and healthily, by keeping the Races separate.
