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I like to think that using this analogy, here you're going to the food bank and donating food (or your stem cells) while getting data on how many people liked it in return.

I've seen too many kids with blood cancer who couldn't get a match, so please do consider signing up to your local charity :)

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That assumes this person is willing to donate-- from their statement on the organization I think they probably are, but the tone of the article beside their description of the organization seems to be "Yeah DKMS is good but look here's a cool loophole to get free stuff!".

That's not exactly a message that will attract those interested more in helping people than free medical data about themselves.

The person you're replying to is the author of the article

That does not change anything about my comment. As I said in it, it did seem they were probably willing to donate if called upon. The real problem is what I said about the overall tone in my comment above.

Heck, just look at the title of the post. It was not "Helping to Save Lives can Get You Free Genotyping!"

No, instead it was just about how he got free genotyping, which just reinforced my impression of where the tone of the post's real focus was-- the free data, not helping people.

I will fully give the author the benefit of the doubt that it was not their intention to set that tone. But that was nonetheless the tone I saw, and clearly others did as well.

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