Makes me think of Peter Watts' "The Things":
https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/watts_01_10/
> MacReady’s blood test, for example. His thing detector, to expose imposters posing as men. It does not work nearly as well as the world thinks; but the fact that it works at all violates the most basic rules of biology.
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