Jorge Barrera
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first heard Nov 2024
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And their group, it just keeps growing.
And for this group of people who have lost so much, finding others in the same position fuels more than just a sense of solidarity.
Corral also has questions about the company itself and the people it hires.
They're the questions that both Rachel and I share.
That's all coming up on Bad Results. A legal note here. Over the course of this podcast, you're going to hear a number of allegations made against Vygarde Acumetrix and its employees. When asked, company owner Harvey Tenenbaum said he stands by the tests and that any errors were caused by customers during sample collection.
Bad Results is written and reported by Rachel Houlihan and me, Jorge Barrera. Mixing and producing by AC Rowe. Jessica Lindsay is our showrunner. And Carla Hilton is our executive producer. Special thanks to the folks at CBC Podcasts for their support. Karen Burgess is managing editor for CBC News Podcasts.
On January 25th, 2017, people living on Canada's east coast in Newfoundland and Labrador tune into their local CBC Radio drive-home show and hear this.
It's the stuff of fiction. The lone descendant of a long-lost people steps out of the shadows.
Her proof?
The very next day, her story gets fact-checked, and questions about the DNA sample are front and center.
So how did Acumetrix get this result? When asked, the company's owner, Harvey Tenenbaum, says simply, quote, well, if we have it in the computer, we got it from somewhere. Not long after, the Beothuk references on the Acumetrix website vanish. But it wouldn't be the last time an indigenous ancestry test would catch the company out. And the next time, I would be the reporter getting the tip.
A call that would lead to a whole new set of questions about the company's DNA testing services.
And at the same time that this Beothuk story was blowing up, thousands of kilometers away, a woman named Sarah Domenico had her own questions about the company. And she would do something very few would try when burned by Acumetrix. She would take them to court.
I'm Jorge Barrera. This is Bad Results, Chapter 4, Dog by Controversy.
The story of Sarah's court battle with Viagard Acumetrics begins in 2013. She's just ended a years-long on-again, off-again relationship. She's hanging out in downtown Oakland when she sees this guy going by on his bicycle.
One thing leads to another with this guy and, well, sparks fly. She'll call him John to protect his privacy. In the fall of 2013, a couple weeks after meeting John, Sarah finds out she's pregnant. It's a surprise. A good one. She's 36.
But her calculations tell her that her ex, a guy she's calling Micah, also to protect his privacy, well, he is probably the dad. So she tells John she's pregnant and is going back to Micah.
But there's this nagging little worry. What if she's wrong? John is black. Micah is white.
When Sarah lands on the Acumetrix website, she's drawn to it.
And even though she's told Micah she's pregnant, Sarah doesn't want him to know she's not sure he's actually the dad. But she needs his DNA sample for the test.
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