Hamilton's Theory Of Blood Doping

. Housman offered to testify during Hamilton’s US Arbitration panel hearing and claimed that the testimony against Hamilton was “riddled with factual errors and inconsistencies.”Housman strongly believed that blood doping was not the only possible reason behind Hamilton’s testresults, and that tetragametic chimerism could actually be the cause. The Anti-DopingAgency’s expert, Dr. Ross Brown, attempted to refute Dr. Housman’s theories.He testified that human chimeras were exceedingly rare and added that another cyclist on Hamilton’s teamalso tested positive for blood doping. Dr. Brown claimed that “it is inconceivable to me that there would be two people who were rare chimeras on the same cycling team.” Unfortunately for Hamilton, his defense failed to convince the arbitration panel and the agency’s finding was upheld. Natural chimerism can cause incredible difficulties for all aspects of society relying on …show more content…
Whether it is DNA testing determining maternity or paternity for welfare benefits, or DNA testing to determine the identity of a murderer, natural chimerism causes large obstacles for courts to overcome. The first part of this section will look at possible difficulties natural chimerism causes in the context of maternity and paternity testing, primarily in child support, visitation rights, probate proceedings, and government assistance programs. The next section will look at difficulties presented to the criminal justice system when facing