Rare Case of Chimerism Highlights Inequities

It was the To Catch a Predator Nightline series on NBC I think you are referring to. As I recall, it was only at the very end of the series, on the last part in the last 10 minutes, did the host mention the many emails and calls they got from people who were asking why weren't female predators being shown? The reply was that they tend to fly under the radar, seeking out victims from among children they know and have ready-access to rather than needing to go looking for victims on line. Of course this doesn't excuse the omission. When will we see a series on predatory females taking advantage of kids in school (no need to review the no. of cases of women who stat.-rape teen boys) or at day-care centers, or children of friends, or whatnot? Not bloody likely any time soon.

Whoever wrote the article is obviously trying to push everyone's emotional buttons..all the ones like "disenfranchised mother", or like "no-one believing a woman [has been raped/molested/punched]". But the person writing the article is also a dumbo, because she/he does not explain how we get from "she was her own twin" to "her DNA doesn't match her kids". I am not doubting that it is true, I'm just saying the writer did not explain it. Maybe he/she is too stupid to be writing anything about science. The implication seem to me to be that the kids didn't have the 'chimera' DNA..so what?? Why would that mean that they had NONE of the same strands? The burden is on the writer to explain this.
So now that we have established that the writer is an overly-emotional dunce, let's think about how all this might apply to paternity issues, for example. We don't need to get very scientific to think along these lines, if we just discuss it in a general sense. If DNA tests come to be regarded as fallable due to this 'chimera syndrome' (as it will undoubtedly come to be called), does that mean that maybe some guy might REALLY BE the father of a kid, even if DNA tests show him not to be?? And then he will still have to make his child support payments, because we can't be COMPLETELY sure he is NOT the father?? Unfortunately that kind of distorted logic has been applied by feminists and accepted by the general public regarding similar issues over the last few decades; and I see no reason not to predict that if the word gets out on this chimera thing, there may be a big 'about face' regarding the findings that so many women have lied about paternity..and I'm sure the journalists and others spreading the news will push all the same buttons, and be just as stupid, as the author in this case.
-Axolotl