Category Archives: AAFS

Forensics: Typical whitewash of junk bitemarker myth. In PubMed! They now buddy up with DNA. Integration of Bite Mark Microbiome Analysis with Forensic DNA Profiling: Advancements, Challenges, and Synergistic Approaches – PubMed

Bite mark analysis plays a pivotal role in forensic investigations, by helping to identify suspects and establish links between individuals and crime scenes. However, traditional bite mark methodologies face significant challenges due to issues with reliability and subjectivity. Recent advances … Continue reading

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Forensics: Yet the #AAFS still endorses the org that personally attacked Dr. Mary Bush. Tools of dental professor’s bitemark research included in Smithsonian exhibition

Tools of dental professor’s bitemark research included in Smithsonian exhibition – University at Buffalo — Read on http://www.buffalo.edu/news/releases/2024/06/Mary-Bush-bitemark-research-Smithsonian.html

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Forensics: Tell the Bitemark ABFO one “study” does not define a “science.” Three Genuine Tells of Junk Science | Evolution News

This comes to us hard on the heels of philosopher Massimo Pigliucci’s effort to identify “pseudoscience.” — Read on evolutionnews.org/2024/07/three-genuine-tells-of-junk-science/

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Forensics: Finally an ID to the hundreds murdered. WWI veteran is first identified victim from 1921 Tulsa massacre since mass graves found.

The remains are the first from those graves to be linked directly to the massacre, in which white people killed as many as 300 Black people. — Read on http://www.wbay.com/2024/07/12/wwi-veteran-is-first-identified-victim-1921-tulsa-massacre-since-mass-graves-found-mayor-says/

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Forensics: How forensic dentists ruin innocent lives

I have co-existed with these dentists for decades. Some are sincere and thoughtful. Others are raging egotists. None are trained as a “scientist .” The outrageous cases like McCrory’s (see the link below) over the last 2 decades have led … Continue reading

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Forensics: #NamUS. Police/Coroners must utilize this public access database. Police compliance for Missings is abysmally low.Its only at 50% for Unknowns.Some even refuse to participate. Mother of missing child advocates for legislation to aid missing ppl.

https://www.firstalert4.com/2024/01/02/mother-missing-child-advocates-legislation-aid-missing-people-missouri/

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Forensics: Company says all is AOK with this. Cops Used DNA to Predict a Suspect’s Face—and Tried to Run Facial Recognition on It | WIRED

Police around the US say they’re justified to run DNA-generated 3D models of faces through facial recognition tools to help crack cold cases. Everyone but the cops thinks that’s a bad idea. — Read on http://www.wired.com/story/parabon-nanolabs-dna-face-models-police-facial-recognition/

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Forensics: Wrap this up and show to all the bitemarkers lecturing at the #AAFS mtg next month. AI discovers that not every fingerprint is unique. EurekAlert!

AI discovers that not every fingerprint is un | EurekAlert! — Read on http://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1030475

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Forensics: Only “New Evidence” Allows $$$. Lieing cops and DAs don’t count. Why is Michigan Failing to Compensate the Wrongly Convicted? — ProPublica

The state can provide the wrongfully convicted compensation of $50,000 for each year of incarceration, but the law’s narrow criteria and confusion over eligibility leave former prisoners facing another system that seems stacked against them. — Read on http://www.propublica.org/article/why-michigan-failing-compensate-wrongly-convicted-despite-law

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Forensics: Tell this to all the Indian academic bitemarkers and lip print gurus. A need to define forensic expertise- The New Indian Express

In France, experts are often selected by judges from lists published by the courts. — Read on http://www.newindianexpress.com/opinions/2024/jan/03/a-need-to-define-forensic-expertise-2647232.html

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