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Sagas of Junk Forensic Science Whistleblowers – Please Read the Entire Piece –
Forensic experts and practitioners clearly endanger themselves when bringing to light contrarian evidence to criminal courts that reveal forensic mistakes and failures to long-court-accepted testimony. This recent article provides a memorial and acclamation to a physician who fought to his … Continue reading
Forensics Failure by ICE : Sexual Assaults in Custody Not Investigated Nor Prosecuted
Illustration: Nicole Rifkin for The Intercept Alice Speri April 11 2018, 9:11 a.m. A woman held at an immigration detention center in Washington state said she was raped by a medical worker and a private facility contractor as she sought help … Continue reading
Forensics: John Hopkins Strongly Weighs In On Bitemarks and Other “Police Forensics” Omitting Scientific Proofs
Scientists decry a lack of actual science in forensic methods Bloomberg Distinguished Professor Arturo Casadevall among co-authors of ‘PNAS’ editorial…….. “WE WANTED TO ALERT PEOPLE THAT THIS IS A CONTINUING AND A MAJOR ISSUE: THAT MANY OF THE FORENSIC TECHNIQUES … Continue reading
Talking Science to Prosecutors and Cops by “Independent” Scientists Continues Unabated
Experts call for more science in forensic science By Susan Kelley | April 10, 2018 Law, Government & Public Policy News & Events MEDIA INQUIRIES Sunita Sah A group of scientists, including Sunita Sah, a physician and assistant professor of management and organizations, … Continue reading
Bad Forensics: Police Controlling Forensic Pathology Outcomes
You won’t see this on CSI which only portrays forensic pathologists as working smoothly with law enforcement. This story from San Joaquin Valley (Modesto, CA) is not the only place where Sheriff Coroners run over their “employee” forensic pathologists. District … Continue reading
The nature of hair and lack of robust research leads to doubts about cocaine testing company
Its the old story of a commercial drug testing company getting a head start in police forensics without discriminant variable testing to support its claims of a subjects’ drug use. The FBI uses this system to this day. In general, … Continue reading
AAAS takes on police “forensic” fingerprint guidelines being an unscientific excuse for accuracy testing
All my forensic casework has seen attorneys asking experts about their “training and experience” relationship to rendered opinions. The AAAS (The American Association for the Advancement of Science” (The World’s Largest) calls out this permissive aspect of qualifying an expert’s “science” … Continue reading
Dodgy Forensics: Here’s Why Crime Labs Need to Be Independent From the Police
Either this crime lab director is a cop or he was trained by one to keep his mouth shut to advantage the District Attorneys’ Office. The Orange County (Trumpland of California) DA Raukaukus has a few smooth moves of his … Continue reading
If Bitemark Identifiers Are Flawed, Why Did The AAFS Just Recertify Them?
The decades of criticisms about the American Board of Forensic Odontology’s (ABFO) relationship with the American Academy of Forensic Science (AAFS) has been a waste of time and effort. This US bitemark bunch gets an accreditation review each five years … Continue reading
Is the “Nazification” of Forensic Science possible under Trump and Jeff Sessions?
Up to this point in history, the 20th century is gone, but it’s compendium of events regarding totalitarian use of governmental “mind control” of science and technology has continued into the 21st. Topics such as eugenics, population “cleansing” of dissidents, … Continue reading
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