4.6 • 10K Ratings
🗓️ 22 October 2024
⏱️ 4 minutes
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Who is this baby’s father? It’s a question a DNA lab promised to answer with “99.9% accuracy” — but instead, routinely identified the wrong dads. Investigative journalists Jorge Barrera and Rachel Houlihan track down the families whose lives were torn apart by these bad results and the story behind the Canadian company that stands by its testing and continues to operate today.
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0:00.0 | This is a CBC podcast. |
0:06.0 | I was trying to protect him from this Jerry Springer reality, |
0:14.0 | and who's the down now? |
0:16.7 | And it's just like, better to know. |
0:20.0 | That's why I wanted to get the test. You know, she doesn't recall any kind of significant moment that would lead her to believe |
0:26.8 | it's either one of us in particular. |
0:29.1 | And she's very early stages, pregnancy, not showing or anything like that. What do you do? |
0:35.0 | What is it? It's a paternity test. |
0:40.0 | They all needed a paternity test. For some a pregnancy was good news. For others that was less certain. |
0:49.0 | But what they had in common was a single question. |
0:53.0 | Who's the dad? |
0:55.0 | One by one, they went looking for the answer. |
0:59.0 | Just look up, is it possible to do a DNA test |
1:02.0 | before a baby's born. |
1:03.8 | And bingo. |
1:05.4 | We find this company that will do a prenatal DNA test. |
1:11.4 | I search prenatal paternity test near me and then this byguard acumetrics shows up. |
1:17.0 | The same company, Hit After Hit. |
1:21.0 | Thank you for calling our award-winning laboratory testing and research sensors. |
1:27.6 | For a few hundred bucks, some blood from the mom, a sample from the potential dads, |
1:33.0 | Vygaard acometrics promised accuracy. |
1:37.0 | You're receiving the definitive answer |
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