Category Archives: AAFS

Forensics: Searching for descendants. Tulsa Race Massacre investigators have sequenced DNA from 6 possible victims

Posted on April 13, 2023 by csidds

The work is part of a years-long effort to get an accurate count of how many people were killed when a white mob decimated the city’s prosperous Greenwood enclave, leaving upward of 300 people dead. — Read on http://www.npr.org/2023/04/12/1169464890/tulsa-race-massacre-dna-sequencing-mass-graves

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Forensics: Absurd science cited by anti-abortion drug TX judge

Posted on April 12, 2023 by csidds

http://www.huffpost.com/entry/judge-matthew-kacsmaryk-mifepristone-ruling-study-abortion-changes-you_n_643724ffe4b05765f3803ff8

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Forensics: Florida bill to criminalize filming police actions is yet another anti-Black move

Posted on April 12, 2023 by csidds

This proposal would make already tense situations worse and allow police to abuse their authority, Francesca Menes writes. — Read on news.yahoo.com/florida-bill-criminalize-filming-police-223303803.html

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Forensics: Kentucky law mandates shooter’s AR-15 be sold at auction.

Posted on April 12, 2023 by csidds

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Forensics: More junk forensic odontology from India. Gender determination from bitemarks.

Posted on April 6, 2023 by csidds

http://www.editorialmanager.in/index.php/ijofr/article/download/770/958

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Forensics: China Publishes Data Showing Raccoon Dog DNA at Wuhan Market

Posted on April 6, 2023 by csidds

Scientists from the Chinese C.D.C. confirmed that DNA from raccoon dogs and other animals susceptible to the coronavirus was found at the market in early 2020. — Read on http://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/05/science/china-virus-origins-racoon-dogs.html

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Forensics: Ukrainian groups learn about DNA use to identify war victims

Posted on April 6, 2023 by csidds

Ukrainian civil society and rights groups have visited an organization that uses high-tech DNA techniques to identify people who go missing in conflicts and natural disasters — Read on http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/04/06/ukraine-russia-war-missing-people-dna/d65505e4-d476-11ed-ac8b-cd7da05168e9_story.html

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Forensics: Its time for the #AAFS to banish the bitemarkers’ junk science. From Max Houck

Posted on April 6, 2023 by csidds

https://open.substack.com/pub/maxhouck/p/is-silence-support-for-a-toothless?r=j5102&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

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Forensics: Report about 80 years of child abuse in Baltimore Catholic archdiocese. Statute of limitations on abuse abolished.

Posted on April 6, 2023 by csidds

http://www.huffpost.com/entry/ap-us-rel-church-abuse-maryland_n_642df743e4b001e12d702df3

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Forensics: A #NamUS case. After 40 years, Lincoln County John Doe (1984) is Identified

Posted on April 5, 2023 by csidds

Lincoln County Sheriff’s and Coroner’s Office Team with Southeast Missouri State University and Othram to ID 1984 Human Remains — Read on dnasolves.com/articles/lincoln-county-john-doe-1984-jack-langeneckert/

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