What's It Gonna Take For Them To Realize That JESS' Baby Is Really BABY HOPE ...?

To answer your 1st question, it'll take someone with an actual brain, and those are sorely lacking in Llanview. And even though Jessica and Starr are cousins, the baby still shouldn't have enough alleles for any idiot who knows how to process DNA to think that it's Jess's baby. I wish OLTL and AMC both would realize that viewers aren't all that stupid; we watch TV, we read papers, we even vote. And they just keep insulting our intelligence over and over. Personally, I think it's the writers who are lacking all the clues.