Forensics: Calling BS. Analysis of crime-scene blood and bullets can be pivotal in court cases. But how reliable is it?

Posted on November 8, 2026 by csidds

Ballistic and blood spatter analysis are grounded in science. But its practitioners regularly make conclusions in court that are far beyond what their own empirical evidence supports, according to new…
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Dr. Michael Bowers is a long time forensic consultant in the US and international court systems.
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1 Response to Forensics: Calling BS. Analysis of crime-scene blood and bullets can be pivotal in court cases. But how reliable is it?

  1. bredemarket's avatar bredemarket says:
    November 8, 2026 at 9:08 am

    Interesting that Gordon makes a big deal about the lack of a minimum number of similarities for a bullet matcher. The fingerprinting world shoes away from any such minimum. After all, you just need one explainable MISmatch; if you have that, it doesn’t matter if you have 6 or 12 or 60 similarities.

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