Category Archives: junk forensic science

Forensics: A deep look at the junk vaccine study used by RFKJr and Covid deniers to lie about autism link. Worth a read.

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Forensics: Why tRumps DOJ continues to mess up forensic improvement and distorts justice. This is from his first term in 2017.

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Forensics: What happens when a police crime lab scientist goes rogue. Defense attorneys forced to litigate each case. It takes years.

https://www.cbsnews.com/colorado/news/denver-lawyer-client-prove-wrongful-conviction-forensic-analyst-missy-woods-arrest-mishandling-dna/

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Forensics: The long road for exonorees demanding compensation for years in prison. Oregon AG denies 40 innocence claims.

https://www.opb.org/article/2025/02/18/oregon-wrongful-convictions-bipartisan-bill-exonerated-exoneree-crime-justice/

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Forensics: 🧪 Police misconduct settlements reaches $107.5M in 2024. Taxpayers on the hook for it.

https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_94595428-eb22-11ef-8a89-d388139ed6ad.html

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Forensics: The medical dystopian nightmare of the tin-hat icon and crank RFKjr

https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/the-junk-science-of-robert-f-kennedy-jr

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Forensics: Massive police crime lab scandal in Colorado. Faked DNA results affects hundreds of cases.

https://washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/01/23/dna-test-fraud-colorado/

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Forensics: Police profiling methos debunked by DNA.

Another example of junk Cop forensics and assumptions concerning criminal behavior. https://www.jezebel.com/how-rape-kits-debunked-junk-science-like-behavioral-profiling

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Forensics: Are police actual ‘drug experts’ ? It’s junk science.’ Michigan court case sets precedent for so-called drug â€˜experts’

‘It’s junk science.’ Michigan court case sets precedent for so-called drug ‘experts’ – mlive.com — Read on http://www.mlive.com/news/2024/10/its-junk-science-michigan-court-case-sets-precedent-for-so-called-drug-experts.html

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Forensics: Legal bullet expert doubts state’s bullet evidence against Richard Allen. Tech did not record negative results and did not test multiple weapons taken from double murder crime scene.

CARROLL COUNTY, Ind. — The only piece of hard evidence presented before jurors in the Richard Allen double murder trial in Delphi that supposedly directly ties the defendant to the killings of Abby Williams and Libby German in 2017 is … Continue reading

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