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Taking Science Out Of Forensics is Wrong: Erin Murphy
With prosecutors and police officers in control, expect more wrongful convictions. Read about their sketchy history of mistakes and blatant denial of responsibility for wrongful convictions.
National DAs backup DOJ and police control of #Forensic Standards and Practices. #Resist
A very measured PR statement by a DA claiming many good things to come by allowing prosecutors to pick and choose their agendized concepts of forensic standards and practices. This is despite the Innocence Projects continuing to show his brand … Continue reading
Stand Strong On Forensic Science Reform – And AGAINST DOJ FAKE NEWS
I have played a bit of poker in my day, but the double-crosses and bluffing we are getting from the our glorious leaders of the Republican Administration is getting old fast. Their deconstructing and lock-step revision of 10 years of … Continue reading
US Forensics now in charge of Prosecutors
Backsliding from bipartisan input on forensic science reform continues to invest more control to the police and the @NDAA (District Attorneys). These are the same lawyer bunch who think bitemark matching is a jolly good means of human identification. Washington … Continue reading
Indian and Saudi bitemark experts assume human dentition is unique – Arab Forensic Journal
These bitemark comparison mini-studies have been around for decades. They generally use a few subjects (in this ‘study” there are 20 biters) who bite into wax, clay, bubble gum etc. The superimposition method used was developed in the 1970’s (a … Continue reading
University-based #Forensic Science 50 years of independent crime analysis – Scotland
Strathclyde University’s forensic program began way before DNA showed up in the 80’s and clearly operates untouched by police management of their operations and decision-making. In the US, the police forensic experts can show up in uniforms or wearing their … Continue reading
How weakly supported #Forensics goes viral – The media’s responsibility
A glimpse at ‘modern forensics’ and the ‘modern media.’ In this story, we see evidence that various ‘news reporters’ and salaried journalists to the list of people like judges and DAs need better insight into the scientific method. I am … Continue reading
From mere suggestion, to simple research, to accurate “forensics” in 2 days – Hair II
New Hair Testing Technique Can Accurately Predict a Criminal’s Personal Traits The time line of promoting forensic research into actual use in criminal investigation seems to be incredibly rapid when reading media reports. It all started on Tuesday with this … Continue reading
A look at the promotion of new forensics – Hair news release
I just love how things have changed in the forensic science arena. One can all of a sudden go from some preliminary studies on human hair protein analysis (aka amino acid content) and then take it on the road to … Continue reading
Hair drug testing sounds 100% from this lecturer in Dubai
This news brief has nothing but praise. “Dr Kintz guided the participants on how to store the sample (in an envelope); when the test is best suited to be administered (after ten days of suspected time of consuming drug), how … Continue reading
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