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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>>..</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Kelly Anderson<br><b><span style='color:#1F497D'>…</span></b></span><o:p></o:p></p><div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>>…</span>Perhaps they should take a page from the book used by the sex toys industry<span style='color:#1F497D'>…<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Hmmmmm, OK. {8-] But don’t actually TAKE the page, that would ruin one of my favorite books. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal> <span style='color:#1F497D'>>…</span>All they would have to do is say, "This is for entertainment purposes only. Not meant to really diagnose a damn thing." <span style='color:#1F497D'>…<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Kelly I think you are onto a good idea here. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>>…</span>After all, if a vibrating dildo is not a medical device, then a swab in the mouth should not be either, so long as they don't make any real medical claims about it.<span style='color:#1F497D'> </span>-Kelly<span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Ja, and keep in mind the spit kit doesn’t actually have any swab or anything that goes into the mouth. I am not sure about the sex toy catalog in that regard, but the 23 kit is just a test tube full stop. If it did have a swab, that would be possibly a legitimate objection by the FDA, since 23 would be responsible for the cleanliness of the swab. It might be more analogous to the vitamin industry, which the Feds will mostly leave alone if they don’t make too many claims about what their products do.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>I can’t imagine how they figure the spit kit is a medical device. It feels too much like a power grab on the part of the FDA. If they manage to require 23andMe to do efficacy testing, there is no way the price of the kits can stay below the magic 100 dollar mark, and think of it this way: 100 bucks is a magic number for so many reasons: we don’t much hesitate to spend that much for birthday and Newtonmas gifts for friends and family, for a lot of us. It is a good middle-class America threshold expense level for gifts, a psychological imaginary fence: all two digit numbers are fair game for gifts. So if the FDA raises that price even a couple bucks, it would have enormous impact on the business. 23andMe is a perfect example of an enterprise which becomes more valuable as more people participate in it. A good low-end DNA service is just what we need somewhere.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>On another topic:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>>…</span> While not as immediately dismissive of the entire cold fusion phenomenon as Spike, one should be aware that this failure could have been a result of chemistry based heat, not cold fusion produced heat…<span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Kelly I want to save my five daily posts by responding here. Regarding cold fusion and my skepticism on that topic: if cold fusion is real, then everything we thought we knew about nuclear chemistry is wrong. The evidence needed for me to take seriously that farfetched idea is waaaay above anything that has been offered to date, way above. What really makes me confident in my doubt is the notion that chemistry can somehow affect the way a nucleus behaves. That strains my imagination well beyond the breaking point. Those wispy little electrons flying around way out there at a nanometer or more really cannot even find that compact knot of mass way down there at the femtometer scale, never mind have some kind of voodoo influence on it.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Regarding bitcoin, that whole notion was believable to me from the first time I heard it, because Prime95 was loosely analogous to bitcoins: we had all these computers fishing around looking for Mersenne Primes, sorta like the way bitcoin miners do. Anyone who found one was at least a temporary world record holder for the discoverer of the largest known prime number, and went on a short list with Euler and some of the greatest mathematicians in history. If you aren’t a geek and don’t care about that stuff, you could quietly offer to sell the number to someone who would pay a looootta lotta money for it. So in a way Prime95 was a proto Bitcoin, sorta.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>spike<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>