Ich-parle

I’m no doctor but I know I wouldn’t walk away from something that looked even the slightest bit weird, especially regarding a patient.

Part of the problem is that all that training just teaches you how much weird there really is out there. Patients die all the time when they aren't "supposed" to, not because anyone killed them, but because that's just the luck of the draw. Other patients live through things you would never thought possible. Patients have weird reactions to treatments constantly, because they lied about something in their medical history, because they didn't realize OTC Aspirin counted as medication, because they exercised too much or too little, because they have a weird genetic anomoly, or because they ate a goddamn grapefruit for breakfast.

It's impossible to dig into everything that looks a little bit weird. Catching doctors that do this is more differentiating between who is having a run of bad luck and who might be intentionally or unintentially causing more harm than you'd expect, and in practice that's a very hard thing to do.

Wisdom Panel fudges their numbers. All of their results are in perfect multiples, e.g. 50%, 25%, 12.5%, etc. That's not really how genetics works - you get exactly 50% of your DNA from each parent, but it's extraordinarily rare that each parent would pass exactly on perfect 50:50 split of their parents. So rather than getting 25% from each grandparents, you'd more commonly see 23%/27% splits, for example.

Wisdom Panel then simplifies the numbers to even 25% splits, I'm guessing because it's easier to explain to consumers. But thats not the real data, and it makes me suspicious of what else they're doing in their analysis that makes things easier to present but isn't strictly correct.

There's a good amount of research going into that, but the problem is that it's extremely complex. We aren't talking about one or two, we're talking about hundreds of types of bacteria. To make matters worse, they all interact with each other - I.e. If you have strains A, B, and C OR strains D, E, and F; you're fine - but it you have strains A, C, and F; you're hooped. Take that with inherent biases in sequencing or culturing, and differences in both people's genetics and diet, and it takes a lot of time to figure it all out. We just aren't there yet.

There's a comment on that first link (The Tampa Bay times article) saying the poster knows of a location where they were reburied - have you followed up with that at all?