S30 E4: Dogged by controversy | Bad Results

Sea of Lies from Uncover

CBC

True Crime

4.6 • 10K Ratings

🗓️ 18 November 2024

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

After years of expansion into different DNA services, controversies around the company begin to surface — publicly. There’s a lawsuit against the company, journalists (including our co-host Jorge Barrera) start sniffing around; and a poodle is falsely identified as an Indigenous person. Meanwhile, prenatal paternity testing quietly disappears from the services on the Viaguard Accu-Metrics website.

A legal note: Over the course of this podcast, a number of allegations are made against Viaguard Accu-Metrics and its employees. When asked, company owner Harvey Tenenbaum said he stands by the test, and that any errors were caused by customers during sample collection.

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0:00.0	I'm Nadine Bailey.
0:02.7	I've been a ghost tour guide for 20 years
0:05.2	and have taken people into haunted places
0:07.8	to uncover macab tales and dark secrets.
0:12.7	On my podcast, Haunted Canada,
0:15.8	I share bone-chilling stories of the unexplained.
0:20.1	Search for Haunted Canada on Apple Podcast, Spotify, Amazon Music,
0:24.9	or wherever you're listening right now. Then join me if you dare. This is a CBC podcast.
0:38.3	Today we've got an interview for you with a woman who's making a very bold claim, one
0:42.5	that if true, would mean we'd have to rewrite the history books.
0:45.8	On January 25th, 2017, people living on Canada's East Coast in Newfoundland and Labrador
0:52.7	tune in to their local CBC Radio Drive Home show
0:56.0	and hear this. Carol Reynolds Boyce is a 55-year-old retired school teacher who lives in Wilmington, Delaware.
1:03.1	She's got a Facebook page on which she claims she's the chief of the Beothic tribe of
1:07.9	Newfoundland and North America Reservation Nation.
1:11.4	Yes, the Beothic, said to be extinct since 1820, but very much alive, says Ms. Boyce.
1:17.7	It's the stuff of fiction.
1:19.6	The lone descendant of a long-lost people steps out of the shadows.
1:24.3	When people think that you're extinct and that you don't exist, they take advantage of
1:27.6	that, see? Because they think there's no voice to speak for them. Well, now I'm the voice,
1:32.6	and I'm speaking for my ancestors. Her proof? I took a DNA test for First Nation testing. They have
1:40.8	DNA testing for all the tribes up in Canada, of Ontario.
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