Sickboy Introduces | Uncover: Bad Results

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CBC

Society & Culture

4.8 • 524 Ratings

🗓️ 4 November 2024

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

They needed certainty. They got chaos. For over a decade, countless people from at least five different countries put their trust in a company offering prenatal paternity tests. It promised clients “99.9% accuracy” — but then routinely, for over a decade, identified the wrong biological fathers.

Investigative journalists Jorge Barrera and Rachel Houlihan track down the people whose lives were torn apart by these bad results, the shattered families and acrimonious court cases that followed, and the story behind the company that continues to stand by its testing and is still operating today.

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0:00.0	What's the connection between being an astronaut and being a novelist? I hadn't really thought about it
0:06.8	until I talked to the astronaut-turned-writer Chris Hadfield about his new thriller, Final Orbit.
0:13.5	Every week on the podcast bookends, I sit down with today's best authors for candid conversations
0:18.8	about their writing, inspirations, and lives.
0:22.8	You'll get to see the world through the eyes of your favorite writers, and they might even
0:26.6	take you to outer space, too. Bookends with Matea Roach is available now wherever you get your podcasts.
0:34.3	This is a CBC podcast.
0:38.4	Hello, I'm Jorge Berrera.
0:40.7	And I'm Rachel Hulahan.
0:42.3	We're the host of Bad Results, the newest season of CBC Podcasts Investigative Series Uncover.
0:48.3	It's a story that spans over a decade about the countless people who put their trust in a Toronto company offering prenatal paternity tests.
0:56.5	It promised clients 99.9% accuracy, yet their results were anything but.
1:02.5	In bad results, we meet the people whose test results named the wrong father, following a trail of shame and shattered families.
1:10.7	Our podcast is an investigative journey into getting these families' answers about what went
1:15.9	wrong, tracing a web of leads to a Canadian DNA company.
1:20.3	We have the first episode to share with you now.
1:23.3	Have a listen.
1:28.4	You are the father.
1:32.9	Remember this era?
1:34.9	You are not the father.
1:38.4	Yeah, the era of daytime trash TV.
1:42.3	We're talking 1996 NBC Universal lineup.
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