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Forensics: Donald Trump, the DOJ, and forensics: the administration snuck in one last push for junk science in courts.
Apparently, high-school science is beyond the ken of these law school geniuses at the DOJ. They quack like little lame 🦆ies. Donald Trump, the DOJ, and forensics: the administration snuck in one last push for junk science in courts. — … Continue reading
Posted in AAFS, ABFO, Bad Forensic Science, Bitemarks, costs of wrongful convictions, criminal justice reform, CSI, forensic evidence exaggeration, Forensic Science, Forensic Science Bias, forensic science misconduct, junk forensic science, US Crime labs
Tagged American Academy of Forensic Science, Forensic science
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Forensics: A comparison of computed tomography, X‐ray and Lodox® scans in assessing pediatric skull fractures using piglets – Spies – – Journal of Forensic Sciences – Wiley Online Library
No magic bullet but actual cross-modality imagery testing is valuable. A comparison of computed tomography, X‐ray and Lodox® scans in assessing pediatric skull fractures using piglets – Spies – – Journal of Forensic Sciences – Wiley Online Library — Read … Continue reading
Posted in AAFS, forensic pathology, Forensic Science
Tagged cranial injury imagery comparisons
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Forensics: Comparing three Covid-19 vaccines: Pfizer, Moderna, J&J
In some respects, it’s easy to make direct comparisons between the three vaccines; in others, it’s more complicated. — Read on http://www.statnews.com/2021/02/02/comparing-the-covid-19-vaccines-developed-by-pfizer-moderna-and-johnson-johnson/
Posted in AAFS, Center for Disease Control, Mass Disaster recovery
Tagged covid vaccine comparisons
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Forensics: Love those molars. Neanderthal teeth hint at interbreeding with modern humans – News Centre – University of Kent
My new forensic avatar will be a bicuspid. Bio-arch rocks! (A attempt at paronomasia). Neanderthal teeth hint at interbreeding with modern humans – News Centre – University of Kent — Read on http://www.kent.ac.uk/news/science/27738/neanderthal-teeth-hint-at-interbreeding-with-modern-humans
Forensics: Criminality. Trump officials lobbied to deny states money for vaccine rollout last fall
Top Trump officials actively lobbied Congress to deny state governments any extra funding for the Covid-19 vaccine rollout last fall. — Read on http://www.statnews.com/2021/01/31/trump-officials-lobbied-to-deny-states-money-for-vaccine-rollout/
Forensics: More on injustice in US criminal courts. Public Defenders Suffer From the ‘Stress of Injustice’: Study
Public Defenders Suffer From the ‘Stress of Injustice’: Study | The Crime Report — Read on thecrimereport.org/2021/01/26/public-defenders-suffer-from-the-stress-of-injustice-study/
Forensics: Disparate legal standards. One for the rich, one for the poor. Georgia Offers Unequal Expert Evidence Standards
Guess who gets the benefit, and who gets the shaft. It is glaring proof that the two tier legal structure of rich vs poor really exists. The second proof is the inequitable funding of prosecutors, providing DAs with distinct advantages … Continue reading
Posted in AAFS, Community Dentistry, criminal justice, criminal justice reform, Forensic Science, Forensic science misconduct, forensic science reform, junk forensic science, Medical errors, prosecutorial misconduct, US traitors, insurrection, US Capitol attacks
Tagged discriminatory legal standards for evidentiary admissibility
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Forensics: How Flawed Science of Bite-Mark Analysis Imprisoned a Man for Murder
A wide open look at the face of junk forensics from 2015. The bitemarkers now claim they are “new and improved.” They certainly will argue that myth at upcoming evidentiary hearings in 2 southern states of the US. It is … Continue reading
Posted in AAFS, ABFO, Bad Forensic Science, Bite Marks, Bitemarks, costs of wrongful convictions, forensic evidence exaggeration, forensic fraud, Forensic Science, Forensic Science Bias, forensic science misconduct, prosecutorial misconduct
Tagged American Academy of Forensic Science
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Forensics: Top forensic expert jailed for identifying weapons sent to jihadists by Turkey’s intel agency – Nordic Monitor
Ergodan is a despot. Abdullah Bozkurt/Stockholm — Read on nordicmonitor.com/2021/01/top-european-forensic-expert-jailed-for-identifying-ammunitions-sent-to-jihadists-by-turkeys-intelligence/
Posted in AAFS, human rights violations, prosecutorial misconduct
Tagged Erdogan, forensic coverup, Turkey
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Forensics: Round 2 soon coming your way. Council Concludes Bite-Mark Analysis Is Junk – The Intercept
This is from 2016. Then Trump eviscerated forensic science reform. Prosecutors, some crime lab ppl, and the FBI (Lynch and Sessions) all personally attacked the Obama admin’s (including Eric Lander and the “activist and conflicted” Innocence Project) multiple science commissions … Continue reading
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