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Forensics: Medical Sleuthing Identified the Dangers of Thalidomide | Scientific American
FDA medical examiner Frances Oldham wanted data that would show that thalidomide was safe to use during pregnancy. It wasn’t — Read on http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/medical-sleuthing-identified-the-dangers-of-thalidomide/
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Forensics: Unknown persons sold for profit in Texas. Agencies not reporting to national database. Cut up and leased out – by Max Houck – Forensic Science*
“Just because they don’t have any next of kin doesn’t mean they have no voice.” — Read on maxhouck.substack.com/p/cut-up-and-leased-out
Forensics: Cops immunity wont help this problem. Chicago’s wrongful conviction calamity leaves taxpayers on the hook for a fortune in claims, possibly billions of dollars – ABC7 Chicago
Chicago wrongful conviction settlements could reach the billions of dollars, on top of $750 million for policy brutality and convictions since 2000. — Read on abc7chicago.com/post/chicagos-wrongful-conviction-calamity-leaves-taxpayers-hook-fortune-claims-possibly-billions-dollars/15327607/
Forensics: Article of Interest: Former U.S. Judge Andy Lester Calls on Oklahoma to Implement Reforms to “Badly Broken” Capital Punishment System Before Continuing Executions | Death Penalty Information Center
The Death Penalty Information Center is a non-profit organization serving the media and the public with analysis and information about capital punishment.… — Read on deathpenaltyinfo.org/article-of-interest-former-u-s-judge-andy-lester-calls-on-oklahoma-to-implement-reforms-to-badly-broken-capital-punishment-system-before-continuing-executions
Forensics: Q&A: Is the ‘lung float test’ accurate? Law professor is leading an effort to discredit ‘bad science’
Over the centuries, a flawed and controversial forensics tool known as the “floating lung test” or lung float test has sent innocent women accused of infanticide to the gallows. — Read on phys.org/news/2024-09-qa-lung-accurate-law-professor.html
Forensics: Junk science kills. Texas’ declines to stop execution in Roberson shaken baby syndrome case | The Week
A Texas man lost his final appeal to avoid execution, based on a conviction his lawyers say is based on debunked junk science. — Read on theweek.com/law/texas-execution-shaken-baby-syndrome
Forensics: When science is overwhelmed by cult believers pushing their beliefs. Read about bitemark matching in East Indian “crime fighting” dentists.
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A Forensic Tragedy: Texas Man Faced Execution Based on Junk Shaken Baby Myth
After Roberson’s conviction, the DA “expert” recanted his opinion that the baby’s death was a homicide. Kudos to Liliana Segura and Jordan Smith for this investigative journalism in The Intercept. The TX AG Paxton refuses to apply the Tx Junk … Continue reading
Forensics: More Bitemark BS From the Indian Subcontinent. Also Includes Other Dental Junk Methods.
Welcome to the world of pseudo-forensics. The entire body of the Indian forensic dental community is a circle of self affirming statements praising their skills. The entire 72 pages of this literature review has no citations. Its references are skewed … Continue reading
Junk forensics kills. Killer mistakes: Why are exonerations so difficult on death row?
The fact that there are so many roadblocks erected to prevent success in freeing falsely convicted inmates from death row, and that it takes so long to bring about an exoneration, is truly scandalous. — Read on thehill.com/opinion/civil-rights/4831550-death-row-exoneration/
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