From: hayesstw@telkomsa.net   
      
   On Sat, 20 Apr 2019 02:59:07 +1000, Doug Laidlaw   
    wrote:   
      
   >Secondly, DNA testing has often done more harm than good.  In one case,   
   >the applicant discovered she had none of her father's DNA.  In a case I   
   >have just been reading, a couple decided to take a DNA test.  It showed   
   >that the male partner was related to a serial killer.  His g-f couldn't   
   >handle this, and left him.  Maybe she was looking for a way to split,   
   >and this was her excuse, as the comforters on social media suggested.   
   >But in both cases, there were facts that it was better not to know.  I   
   >have enough inherited illnesses; I don't need to know about any others.   
      
   That is the thing that DNA is most useful for -- DISproving a   
   relationship. But the further back you go, the less relable it is   
   likely to be. You can't go round exhuming old bodies just to discover   
   whether you are or are not related to them, and how do you know that   
   the body under the stone is the one whose name is on the stone anyway?   
      
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