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050903 - Thomas Jefferson Framed then DNA Evidence Collapsed
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050908 - Besides astute argument, the writing in the article is exceptional...
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050911 - The argument is made that Jefferson should not be honored, e.g., have
050912 - a statue in New York City Hall, because DNA evidence allegedly from
050913 - Jefferson 250 years ago, showed he fathered a child with a 14-year old
050914 - slave.
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050916 - Thomas Jefferson is either the most prolific, hypocritical
050917 - liar in American history or the victim of the most profane
050918 - defamation of character allegation in 250 years. There is no
050919 - gauzy middle ground in this historical tableau. Now, with a
050920 - new book, History by a Hair: Thomas Jefferson, Sally Hemings &
050921 - Solving a 200-Year-Old Mystery, and a DNA study alleging a
050922 - further genetic match to Jeffersons clipped hair, the
050923 - debate has reignited.
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050926 - The author explains at this time, Jefferson has become "...one of the
050927 - principal historical victims of the current orgy of debunking our
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050930 - Jeffersons personal reputation has been all but assassinated
050931 - for the last 20 years, since the 1998 DNA match. The face on
050932 - Mount Rushmore has been vilified as a slave-owning hypocrite,
050933 - misogynist, and racist.
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050936 - History revisionists pressing a negative narrative about Jefferson,
050937 - aligns with zeal of journalists in India attributing Sherpa Tenzling
050938 - with reaching the top of Everest first, in order to honor the people
050939 - of India over the British, and actually more broadly white people, see
050940 - the record on 930310 1427. ref SDS 1 TL8O
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050943 - It is beyond the scope of this article to address the major
050944 - problems with the new scientific conclusions, but serious
050945 - problems remain. For example, the strength of the new DNA
050946 - study depends on several separate links in an evidentiary
050947 - chain. Is the hair unquestionably Jeffersons? The new study
050948 - describes hair that was clipped from Jefferson shortly after
050949 - his death, placed in paper, and preserved for 250 years. That
050950 - alone presents monumental problems with what, in the law, is
050951 - called chain of custody : Who handled the hair over nearly
050952 - two centuries? Was every transfer documented? Were other
050953 - Jefferson family hairs stored nearby? Was there any
050954 - independent genetic method for establishing that the
050955 - particular hairs tested actually belonged to Thomas Jefferson
050956 - rather than another family member? That distinction is
050957 - colossal. Moreover, ancient hair DNA presents enormous
050958 - scientific problems.
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050961 - A cut hair normally contains little or no intact nuclear
050962 - tissue compared with a freshly plucked hair containing root
050963 - material. With material approximately two centuries old,
050964 - degradation, fragmentation, and environmental contamination
050965 - become major concerns. The question then becomes not merely
050966 - Was DNA detected? but How much authentic endogenous DNA was
050967 - recovered, at what coverage, and how confidently can
050968 - contaminating DNA be excluded? And finally, a reconstructed
050969 - genome the genome consists of 23 pairs of chromosomes
050970 - located in the cells nucleus is not necessarily equivalent
050971 - to sequencing pristine DNA from Jefferson himself. There was
050972 - no reconstructed genome from other more likely paternity
050973 - candidates, such as Jeffersons younger, unknown brother,
050974 - Randolph Jefferson, and Jeffersons lascivious nephew, Peter
050975 - Carr, who admitted to having an affair with Hemings. In fact,
050976 - Jeffersons overseer at Monticello, Edmund Bacon, specifically
050977 - stated that he saw another man, not Jefferson, coming out of
050978 - Hemingss cabin many a morning, implying Carr.
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