Yeah, this is something the CDC's been talking about for several years now. They've got genetic studies that they're doing as well with the intent of getting a broad survey of how environmental and genetic factors impact various diseases. It's a huge program.
NHANES is just a part of it. This survey, while extensive, is harmless. It's just a very extensive data collection effort intended to try and narrow down what are called social determinants of health. In countless diseases, it is well documented that "environmental factors" are major risk factors. For example, asbestos exposure among workers at old naval yards leading to lung cancer. A large part of the survey is an assessment of various potential hazards, and the data promises to offer a window into understanding the increased rates of atopic diseases, asthma, autoimmune diseases, autism spectrum disorder, ADHD, and other mental health disorders, and of course cancer.
Regarding "targeted communities": Yes, the survey specifically targets rural areas. It is very easy to recruit people in major cities. Researchers have ready access to populations that are commonly willing to participate in testing and research, like young healthy college students. It creates an intrinsic bias in the data towards white, affluent people and whatever the local minority is. In order to get a representative sample, you have to go out into communities that are not common sources for survey/study recruitment and make a deliberate effort to sample these areas. Rural America is a "target" for this type of effort. There's nothing nefarious about it. It's an effort to get accurate, generalizable data.
Regarding money: it is not uncommon to offer money when the testing or surveys are known to take several hours. While wealthy people may agree to do it for free, poor people often see that as time they could be working for a wage, and so if you want a representative sample, you have to pay everyone for their time in order to avoid a sampling bias.
Regarding asking about guns: This is Obama-era bullshit and it is exactly what it sounds like. It is an effort to create the narrative that gun ownership is linked with disease or poor health in some way. This is intended to justify leftist narratives about mentally unstable people owning guns and representing a danger to society. They actually teach this bullshit to doctors in medical schools now as formal parts of the curriculum required to get a school accredited. As we've already seen with the push on red flag laws, the goal here is to find an excuse to seize guns.
Yeah, this is something the CDC's been talking about for several years now. They've got genetic studies that they're doing as well with the intent of getting a broad survey of how environmental and genetic factors impact various diseases. It's a huge program.
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nhanes/participant.htm
NHANES is just a part of it. This survey, while extensive, is harmless. It's just a very extensive data collection effort intended to try and narrow down what are called social determinants of health. In countless diseases, it is well documented that "environmental factors" are major risk factors. For example, asbestos exposure among workers at old naval yards leading to lung cancer. A large part of the survey is an assessment of various potential hazards, and the data promises to offer a window into understanding the increased rates of atopic diseases, asthma, autoimmune diseases, autism spectrum disorder, ADHD, and other mental health disorders, and of course cancer.
Regarding "targeted communities": Yes, the survey specifically targets rural areas. It is very easy to recruit people in major cities. Researchers have ready access to populations that are commonly willing to participate in testing and research, like young healthy college students. It creates an intrinsic bias in the data towards white, affluent people and whatever the local minority is. In order to get a representative sample, you have to go out into communities that are not common sources for survey/study recruitment and make a deliberate effort to sample these areas. Rural America is a "target" for this type of effort. There's nothing nefarious about it. It's an effort to get accurate, generalizable data.
Regarding money: it is not uncommon to offer money when the testing or surveys are known to take several hours. While wealthy people may agree to do it for free, poor people often see that as time they could be working for a wage, and so if you want a representative sample, you have to pay everyone for their time in order to avoid a sampling bias.
Regarding asking about guns: This is Obama-era bullshit and it is exactly what it sounds like. It is an effort to create the narrative that gun ownership is linked with disease or poor health in some way. This is intended to justify leftist narratives about mentally unstable people owning guns and representing a danger to society. They actually teach this bullshit to doctors in medical schools now as formal parts of the curriculum required to get a school accredited. As we've already seen with the push on red flag laws, the goal here is to find an excuse to seize guns.
Nothing nefarious at all. The CDC is truly trustworthy and will not do anything harmful with your DNA samples.
GTFOH with that nonsense.