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57 months in prison for Iowa State researcher
US vaccine researcher sentenced to prison for fraud. Says he was covering for an earlier lab mistake. The case of Dong-Pyou Han illustrates the uneven nature of penalties for scientific misconduct. http://www.nature.com/news/us-vaccine-researcher-sentenced-to-prison-for-fraud-1.17660?WT.mc_id=TWT_NatureNews
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Forensics: SBS cases study leads to presence of uncommon number of confessions. Are MD’s really cops?
The Child Abuse Pediatrician (CAP) – Just Another Term for Medical “Cop” Washtenaw Watchdogs (Washtenaw County, MI) have just published an investigative report article on their website dealing with this very issue. It’s very powerful. See it HERE. More info on … Continue reading
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US Forensic Odontology Program to provide debunked ABFO bitemark training?
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Photo credit: UT and Ben Francis. Someone at the University of Tennessee needs to rethink this odontology curriculum. I’m sure that the non-ABFO faculty affiliated with this forensic…
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US Forensic Odontology Program to provide debunked ABFO bitemark training?
Photo credit: UT and Ben Francis. Someone at the University of Tennessee needs to rethink this odontology curriculum. I’m sure that the non-ABFO faculty affiliated with this forensic dentistry program at UT haven’t a clue about what is going on … Continue reading
More DNA PR on hair from Australia. Why don’t we hear about the data?
Once more, we get a university talking about “great breakthroughs” in forensic analysis. This one is abut collecting “trace” DNA from hair shafts (i.e “shed hair”) which “improves success rates” not seen using prior methods. My main gripe is that these … Continue reading
Bitemarks in child abuse case reveals how skin injury patterns vary dramatically on a single victim
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This amazing article documents how human bite marks on a single victim, arguably by one suspect, are extremely inconsistent in pattern, shape of tooth marks and other details.…
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Remains of Nazi anatomy prof’s victims found at French forensic institute
Nazi anatomist’s collection of Holocaust victims “discovered” in France. A horrible period in European history. Human experimentation by the Third Reich and its collaborators. The endless story about untested rape kits leads to Idaho. You can tell LE is predominantly run by … Continue reading
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Tagged American Academy of Forensic Science, Criminal Justice
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#SandraBland | Circumstances of a murder staged as a suicide?
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Let’s see if we can start a thread from the forensic community about some of these issues . The family of Sandra Bland, who died while in a…
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#SandraBland | Circumstances of a murder staged as a suicide?
Let’s see if we can start a thread from the forensic community about some of these issues . The family of Sandra Bland, who died while in a county jail in Texas this week, has made it clear that the … Continue reading
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Mini-police crime labs sprouting up all over thanks to the American Soc of Crime Labs
Originally posted on FORENSICS and LAW in FOCUS @ CSIDDS | News and Trends:
Somebody needs to tell this Winston-Salem police chief how “speedy crime lab tests” (to avoid huge delays from the state lab) might not work out so well in…
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