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- From: gcf@panix.com (Gordon Fitch)
- Subject: Re: DNA testing
- Message-ID: <1992Nov22.022410.2818@panix.com>
- Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 02:24:10 GMT
- References: <1992Nov21.024836.18702@zooid.guild.org> <1992Nov21.144417.23320@netcom.com> <1em0tpINNs2a@gap.caltech.edu>
- Organization: mydog in exile
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- In article <1em0tpINNs2a@gap.caltech.edu> peri@cco.caltech.edu (Michal Leah Peri) writes:
- | payner@netcom.com (Rich Payne) writes:
- |
- | >In article <1992Nov21.024836.18702@zooid.guild.org> Will Steeves <goid@zooid.guild.org> writes:
- | >>peri@cco.caltech.edu (Michal Leah Peri) writes...
- | >>
- | >>> lynch@ils.nwu.edu (Richard Lynch) writes:
- | >>> >Uncertain parentage should be made certain.
- |
- | >>MLP> How???
- |
- | >>DNA testing...
- |
- | >DNA testing is not yet reliable. It has been accepted in court,
- | >but several false positives have happened in court cases, and I
- | >suspect that it is no longer accepted as an absolute indicator
- | >in court.
- |
- | >In time I am sure it will become reliable. But not yet.
- |
- | But it is likely to remain invasive and expensive (in particular,
- | when performed on a foetus in utero).
-
- I seems to me it would have to be invasive, unless we find
- out how to go through alternate dimensions. There are some
- other questions here: Is this a proposal for compulsory testing?
- Suppose no one wanted to know who the father was? Or suppose
- the father(s) didn't particularly want to know; would it still
- be required? Obtaining DNA from some of the possible fathers
- might be a problem.
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