A letter to america, from me to Sergey Brin!
Why no one understood that http://www.mysergeybrin.com is my letter to America and Sergey Brin.
The money from the sale is to fund a foundation for talented children.

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Sergey Brin of Google has recently started blogging about his risks for Parkinson’s – covered by all major media.
Medical view:
LRRK2 is not the most important gene in the story of Parkinson’s. Sergey Brin has n…

Now to the stuff that wasn’t stated.

4) Parkinson’s has NO cure – none.
5) parkinson’s has very few treatments that are more than modestly successful and ALL those treatments are to alleviate symptoms – they DO NOT EXTEND LIFE
6) parkinson’s has proved to be a VERY hard disease to track down underlying cause and effect – it is not giong to be easy to find a cure.
7) In this case finding the genetic marker doesn’t help with the outcome – he can’t alter what will happen – but that doesn’t mean the overall idea is bad – if he had the genetic marker for some of the other bad hereditary diseases he could avoid having kids to spare them the certainty of dying before they turned 40.

all of you whining about the design – I’d rather read a blog that looks plain and is content rich than a blog that is gilding a t&^%

Furthermore 23&me told me I am 20%-80% likely to die hit by a car If I think too much of my 0%-5% chance to die of a heart attack when I cross the street