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Monthly Archives: March 2017
Forensics: Subverted for-profit publishers in professional publications – Watch out
This is nasty. Forensic students should beware of these dangerous waters within “publish or perish” industry and academia. Some recent communications from companies involved in academic publishing have some journal representatives worried. In one instance, a manuscript editing company offered … Continue reading
Forensic Anthro: Computation look at the human pubis for aging unknown remains
There’s always room for a little humor, right? Taking a new look at the changes over time of the two pubic bones. Fundamental work in the pre-digital era done by forensic anthropologist Judy Suchey at the U of Fullerton in … Continue reading
Forensics in NY State: Police fail to pursue rape testing regulations
They must be doing ‘broken windows’ surveillance instead. A recent NY Division of Criminal Justice Services report shows that 220 of 586 police and prosecutorial agencies have missed a February reporting deadline for providing information about untested sexual assault evidence … Continue reading
Irish police refuse to investigate mass child graves regarding cause of death and abuse
The Irish Garda surely must have a soothsayer on call to predict the outcomes of exhuming hundreds of unidentified children. They have figured the deaths to have all been natural as it would be ‘difficult and highly unlikely’ to determine … Continue reading
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Tagged forensic identifications, human identification, police ineptitude
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Forensics: “Massive parallel” DNA meant to map twin suspects’ entire code to ID perp
This is looking for a needle in the genomic haystack in order to tell identical twins apart. Actual rape case where genomic mapping looking for chromosomal mutations playing a huge role. The commercial German lab’s methods appears to have had … Continue reading
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Tagged DNA profiling, Forensic science, lack of forensic validation
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Forensics: Online call for volunteers (subadults) to look at their teeth
A grad student in the UK is asking parents to take a look at their kids’ teeth and record their birth age and tooth eruption rates (when the baby teeth are lost and the adult teeth arrive in the mouth … Continue reading
Forensics: Irish “unmarked mass graves” of children shows “harsh, harsh conditions”
“Tánaiste and Minister for Justice Frances Fitzgerald said the discovery is an infinitely sad reminder of an Ireland that was a “very harsh, harsh place” for women and their babies.” You can be sure, this is not the only location … Continue reading
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Tagged forensic DNA, unknown human remains, unmarked mass graves
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SC coroners don’t report child deaths but state bill ok’s HS education minimum standard
A bill in the state of South Carolina will take death examiners back to the middle ages. “Don’t dumb down coroner pool.” Amen to that. A 40 hour ‘training’ for death investigation? Here’s some CSI talk about coroners.
#Forensic Pathology: Interesting opine on ‘virtopsies’ vs dissection autopsies
Interesting look at the application of full body virtopsy scans as either a replacement or adjunct for conventional dissection forensic protocols. The writer considers the options and discusses the need for coroner/ME people being trained to read the CT and … Continue reading
A strange convergence of personal attacks against female experts in the UK
Just saying……. Waney Squier, the neuropathologist got ‘delisted’ on a complaint from the coppers about lying ( aka ‘misleading’) the court. Shirley McKie, a SPA fingerprint expert, got charged for ‘perjury’ (again in court) by the coppers, tried for perjury , … Continue reading
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