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Forensics: Protecting police homicides? When Death Investigations Go Wrong
A growing body of data shows how outdated forensic methods and unreliable expert testimony distort justice. — Read on innocenceproject.org/news/when-death-investigations-go-wrong-new-research-reveals-the-risks-of-wrongful-conviction/
Forensics: Worst of the worst. Total fraud. Rogue UIC lab misled courts in cannabis DUI cases | Injustice Watch
A scandal at the University of Illinois Chicago forensics lab reveals a lack of oversight of Illinois crime labs. — Read on http://www.injusticewatch.org/project/forensic-failures/2025/uic-forensics-lab-cannabis-dui-scandal/
Forensics: A nationwide disaster. How the murder of a young woman uncovered a ‘forensic train wreck’ — and led to a reckoning years in the making
Shandee Blackburn was murdered in 2013. Twelve years later, the fallout of botched forensic work has led to a reckoning for Queensland’s forensic lab. — Read on http://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08-10/forensic-science-queensland-dna-lab-saga-shandee-blackburn/105624650
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Forensics: Fakers in our midst. Scientific Fraud Exposed: The Multi-Million-Dollar ‘Shadow Industry’ Creating Junk Science to Propel Academic Careers – The Debrief
Following a deep investigation, researchers say organized multi-million dollar networks dedicated to scientific fraud are increasing. — Read on thedebrief.org/scientific-fraud-exposed-the-multi-million-dollar-shadow-industry-creating-junk-science-to-propel-academic-careers/
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Forensics: Scandal-hit Queensland DNA lab repeats major testing error as rape victims wait over a year for results
This all started in 2022. Someone is playing dirty with the evidence in urgent criminal cases. Damning review exposes ongoing issues at Forensic Services Queensland, including failure to properly test sample from violent unresolved crime — Read on http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/aug/04/forensic-services-qld-queensland-dna-lab-ntwnfb
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Forensics: Historian uncovers evidence of second mass grave of Irish immigrant railroaders in Pennsylvania who suffered from cholera, violence and xenophobia
Researchers have discovered a second mass grave of Irish immigrant railroaders in Chester County, Pa. — Read on theconversation.com/historian-uncovers-evidence-of-second-mass-grave-of-irish-immigrant-railroaders-in-pennsylvania-who-suffered-from-cholera-violence-and-xenophobia-261442
Forensics: Your ancestors chewed betel juice. 4,000-year-old teeth record the earliest traces of people chewing psychoactive nuts | EurekAlert!
4,000-year-old teeth record the earliest traces of people chewing psychoactive betel nuts | EurekAlert! — Read on http://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1092342
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