Can anyone find solid information to support the legend that Karl Landsteiner's discovery of human blood types was widely disbelieved initially because it revealed that up to 25% of children could not possibly have been the offspring of the men their mothers claimed?
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haven't found anything about way back then but seems those values aren't too far off from right now in multiple reports.
Wouldn't be a shock that they blamed the test - Charlie Chaplin did a blood test in 1946 that proved he wasn't the father of a child and the court made him play child support anyway.
http://www.childsupportanalysis.co.uk/analysis_and_opinion/choices_and_behaviours/misattributed_paternity.htm
In Parade magazine this week someone asked a similar question of Marilyn Vos Savant. It was along the lines of how many children were being raised by men who believed they were the biological fathers of their children but in acutality were not. However she estimated the number closer to 10%. I hope for both the children and fathers' sakes she was right.
Out of curiosity, what led you to blog on this?
P: Just a legend I'd heard, but couldn't substantiate. I'm mostly curious about the specific details of the legend: whether or not people disbelieved Landsteiner's research. I have no doubt that illegitimacy rates are quite high.