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A Boston lab suspended coronavirus testing after an investigation uncovered nearly 400 false positive COVID-19 results.

A month after Connecticut officials reported at least 90 false-positive test results, the FDA issued a warning to health care providers using a specific testing kit. There has been a problem with false-positive coronavirus test results coming from the Thermo Fisher Scientific TaqPath COVID-19 Combo Kit. The FDA approved Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) for the kit in March.The problem is with the testing kit itself, as well as with an outdated software system. The FDA released a warning to clinical laboratory staff and health care providers of the risk of false results. With updated instructions and updated software, the...

Last month, South Korean scientists made a very disturbing discovery. About 15 percent of patients who had recovered from the coronavirus was testing positive again. The same worrying phenomenon was discovered in China as well. The implications were disheartening. It meant that a large percentage of people may never become immune from the coronavirus, making an effective vaccine very difficult to create.But South Korean scientists kept investigating and have now found that it’s likely what the testing of coronavirus patients was detecting were “non-infectious” pieces of the virus that were causing the tests to register positive.South Korea uses a very...

"...The initial DNA test result that helped convict Durham was proven to have been a false positive. The error arose from mis- interpretation. The laboratory had failed to completely separate male from female DNA during differential extraction of the semen stain. The victim’s alleles, when combined with those of the true rapist, produced an apparent genotype that matched Durham’s. The laboratory mistook this mixed profile for a single source result, and thereby falsely incriminated an innocent man..."

In April 2012, a Kansas SWAT team raided the home of Robert and Addie Harte, their 7-year-old daughter and their 13-year-old son. The couple, both former CIA analysts, awoke to pounding at the door. When Robert Harte answered, SWAT agents flooded the home. He was told to lie on the floor. When Addie Harte came out to see what was going on, she saw her husband on his stomach as SWAT cop stood over him with a gun.

You’re gonna love this. It turns out that two products that most of us use multiple times a day can trigger a false positive result for explosives during a TSA screening. The culprits? Soap and lotion. Don’t believe me? A few days after the Boston bombings, Linda, an Oklahoma native, was flying out of Port Columbus International Airport (CMH) in Ohio when she was randomly chosen for a hand swab at a security checkpoint. The TSA agent swabbed her hand and promptly informed her that she had tested positive for explosives, specifically nitrates. The poor woman was naturally befuddled and...

An update to Kaspersky's popular anti-virus software on Monday falsely identified Google Adsense as a malicious script. As a result of the false alarm, Kaspersky users visiting sites in Google ad syndication network were falsely warned a site was infected with malicious Trojan-linked JavaScript. Network admins, swamped with inquiries, posted their experiences on a growing forum thread. A Kaspersky Lab spokesman said it was aware of the Google Adsense problem, adding an update should be issued shortly. No further details were available at the time of going to press. The Adsense cockup happened just hours after the bit.ly web address...

160 Healthy Babies Lost for Every 50 Down’s Cases Detected with Amniocentesis By Hilary White LONDON, August 21, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The risks of amniocentesis to the unborn child have long been known but now a new analysis by a British doctor has shown that using the tests in seek-and-destroy missions for Down's syndrome and other genetic abnormalities results in the deaths of hundreds of healthy babies every year in Britain. Dr. Hylton Meire, the retired physician and author of texts on ultrasound, calculates that for every 50 children with Down's Syndrome successfully identified and killed by abortion, 160 non-affected...

<<Back 03/09/04Student Suspended After Police Dog Smells DrugsHas school drug enforcement gone too far? A savannah mother thinks so after her 16-year-old son got suspended. Police say their drug dog smelled marijuana and cocaine on his backpack. It all started with a routine drug check at Jenkins High School yesterday morning. It ended with student Renard Powers getting suspended, based only on a smell. His mother says he is a victim of an overzealous school drug policy.Renard is your typical 16-year-old. A "B" student, he's in school chorus, and spends most of his free time on his computer. When...