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About csidds

Dr. Michael Bowers is a long time forensic consultant in the US and international court systems.

Forensics: When fingers get wet, do they wrinkle the same every time?

Posted on May 20, 2025 by csidds

https://www.forensicmag.com/3594-All-News/619405-Your-Fingerprints-are-the-Same-Even-When-Wrinkled/

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Forensics: Cops use flawed cannabis lab to get arrests.

Posted on May 19, 2025 by csidds

https://businessofcannabis.com/the-hemp-trap-how-texas-cops-and-a-crime-lab-criminalize-the-legal-cannabis-industry-for-profit/

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Forensics: TX Appeals courts use wrong standards in junk science review cases. Inmate execution looms based on shaken baby myth used at trial.

Posted on May 15, 2025 by csidds

https://www.texastribune.org/2025/05/14/texas-junk-science-bill-house-david-cook/

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Forensics: The daft and befuddled practices of forensic dentists. Laughable.

Posted on May 13, 2025 by csidds
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Forensics: DNA spray used to mark perps who approach assault victims.

Posted on May 13, 2025 by csidds

🧪 https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cly392d3el1o

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Forensics: Cells are crowded. A more realistic look at DNA in action: Study shows it behaves differently when crowded by molecules

Posted on May 10, 2025 by csidds

By creating a more true-to-life representation of DNA’s environment, researchers at Northwestern University have discovered that strand separation—the essential process a “resting” double helix undergoes before it can initiate … — Read on phys.org/news/2025-05-realistic-dna-action-differently-crowded.html

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Faulty DNA tests lead to more than 1, 000 criminal cases across Texas being reviewed

Posted on May 9, 2025 by csidds

Insufficient DNA results from 3rd largestcommercial lab in US in Texas revealed to be incorrect. Used to prove guilt or innocence in a death penalty state. https://www.npr.org/2025/05/07/nx-s1-5387511/faulty-dna-tests-lead-to-more-than-1-000-criminal-cases-across-texas-being-reviewed

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Forensics: Why cop forensic labs should not hide errors in their results. Its called the “human factor.”

Posted on May 8, 2025 by csidds

https://www.nist.gov/blogs/taking-measure/research-based-practices-can-help-forensic-scientists-do-their-best-work

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Forensics: Abortion pill haters use faked Project 2025 “research” to support banning it. Claims of sepsis results not peer reviewed and not present in data. Flat Earther syndrome lives.

Posted on May 8, 2025 by csidds

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/josh-hawley-introduces-law-to-ban-mailing-of-abortion-pills-citing-junk-science-report_n_681b808ce4b01488b7bfa2a7

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Forensics: Harvard edited the Sec of Education demand letter for spelling, punctuation and grammar. It reveals evidence of a semi-literate author in need of remedial English composition.

Posted on May 6, 2025 by csidds

This is hilarious and at the same time pitiful. https://www.threads.com/@oni.xxkayxx/post/DJVTBeUpUJV?xmt=AQF0_kQxMf5SrASpKZLHoEt7aZGvf7NPyxQbcoFuY-HVFA

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