DNA: Paternity Testing, Pinocchio from Wood

DNA: Paternity Testing
Ivan Miyingo, BPharm, MPS
Wednesday June 14th, 2023

Without even mentioning the variables and inconsistencies that come with any type of test; whether errors arise from the personnel, equipment or the type of technique being used, poor and non-traditional DNA samples and their respective collection techniques are often used prior to the DNA test.

The same thrust and thirst of confirming that you are raising children that you genetically sire makes other fathers inclined to steal DNA sample strands of hair off their kids' scalps as they fall asleep. This further morphs their urge and behaviour into smuggling the children's toothbrushes and/or fingernail clippings and/or their wisdom teeth out of house without the mother's knowledge nor consent.

This is simply done because better samples like saliva obtained through mouth swabs and traditional blood sample collections would somewhat, but not entirely, require physical presence of the child in question at the facility, or the act would probably signal the mother in one way or the other. 

That brought to light, there is a degree of guarantee to believe that some of the samples provided and obtained from the kids in question might for example be degraded, contaminated, insufficient or worse; all of which lay a fine blueprint and distorted cookbook that could contribute to a series of unreliable or innacurate results.

- Take hair for example, you need to uproot 6-8 strands per test, plus, cut hair will not work, the strands of hair must have roots, because that is where the DNA is located.

- Similarly, fingernail clippings and falloffs when used as main DNA samples for paternity tests, register the lowest level of accuracy and highest failure of results.

- And lastly, for teeth; molars, premolars, and canines work best, not vestigial remnants of wisdom teeth from our vegetarian ancestors.

The bond between humans and pets even before some animals were domestically tamed teaches us one important thing, which because of technology and disruption of evolution plus Darwanian natural selection, will never be found out.

Perhaps maybe the thought of a DNA paternity test alone is just confirmatory the child is not yours. Literally and Metaphorically.

Ivan Miyingo
BPHARM, MPS
miyingoivan@gmail.com