Category Archives: AAFS

Forensics: Measles Outbreak in Texas

Posted on February 9, 2025 by csidds

You won’t hear this on Fox News. https://www.instagram.com/reel/DF3BDExx7G7/?igsh=NjZiM2M3MzIxNA==

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Forensics: Supression of health data by tRump CDC

Posted on February 8, 2025 by csidds

CDC posts and then deletes important bird flu data. Expect the tRumpers to destroy important research on disease and morbidity.

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Forensics: Critics of FBI forensic methods face blowback from government censorship at annual conference.

Posted on February 6, 2025 by csidds

https://theintercept.com/2025/02/06/fbi-academy-forensic-science-law-enforcement/

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A Forensics Company Tells Cops It Can Use DNA to Predict a Suspect’s Face. Scientists Worry the Tool Will Deepen Racial Bias.

Posted on February 2, 2025 by csidds

A Forensics Company Tells Cops It Can Use DNA to Predict a Suspect’s Face. Scientists Worry the Tool Will Deepen Racial Bias.

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Forensic pathology: When doggies bite, who did it? 🧪

Posted on February 1, 2025 by csidds

Forensic pathology: When doggies bite, who did it? 🧪 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0379073825000301

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Forensics: Trumps descent into criminal justice hell in the US.

Posted on January 29, 2025 by csidds

Forensics: Details of Trumps evisceration of criminal justice. https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/project-2025s-plan-criminal-justice-under-trump

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Forensics: “Back the Blue” got chumped again.

Posted on January 29, 2025 by csidds

22 State AGs sue to protect forensic crime labs, police funding, disaster relief, and public services. https://ncdoj.gov/attorney-general-jeff-jackson-sues-to-block-freeze-on-federal-funds/

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Forensics: Police profiling methos debunked by DNA.

Posted on January 20, 2025 by csidds

Another example of junk Cop forensics and assumptions concerning criminal behavior. https://www.jezebel.com/how-rape-kits-debunked-junk-science-like-behavioral-profiling

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Forensics: Prosecutors give excuses and denials for wrongful convictions.

Posted on January 17, 2025 by csidds

Forensics: False conviction lawsuits creates a blame game between cops and prosecutors. Typical. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/allan-woodhouse-brian-anderson-lawsuit-defence-1.7433555

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Forensics: Misogynistic History in Forensic Science

Posted on January 17, 2025 by csidds

‘The Secret History of the Rape Kit’ gives its female inventor credit at last  https://www.npr.org/2025/01/16/nx-s1-5256205/rape-kit-history-marty-goddard-pagan-kennedy

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