The calculations in the study by researchers at The University of Ottawa were used to promote the idea that the COVID-19 vaccine is unsafe for use.
— Read on www.businessinsider.com/study-saying-covid-19-vaccines-cause-heart-inflammation-pulled-2021-10
Notable application of DNA. Dental IDs still have some use, but times are changing.
The 2018 California Wildfires: Integration of Rapid DNA to Dramatically Accelerate Victim Identification – Gin – 2020 – Journal of Forensic Sciences – Wiley Online Library
— Read on onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1556-4029.14284
90 minute processing for an ID. Old lab took 8 months.
Cook County Board Approves Rapid DNA System for Medical Examiner’s Office (Cook County, IL) – The Cook County Board of Commissioners approved funding [Thursday] for a rapid DNA system for the County’s Medical Examiner’s Office.
— Read on thesouthlandjournal.com/cook-county-board-approves-rapid-dna-system-for-medical-examiners-office/
Radley Balko has co-authored with Tucker Carrington ‘The Cadver King and the Country Dentist.” This WP piece is just a glimpse into how courts keep supporting over-reaching and fradulent “forensic scientists.”
The number of experts who can claim to have sent two innocent men to death row is pretty small. Michael West did it in a week.
— Read on www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/10/08/sherwood-brown-exonerated-michael-west/
The CA comp board has been obstructionist in processing these claims via DA influences since its inception.
Law reforms compensation process for those who are wrongly convicted – Santa Barbara News-Press
— Read on newspress.com/law-reforms-compensation-process-for-those-who-are-wrongly-convicted/
Most of us have certain minimal requirements to keep our jobs. When we don’t meet those requirements, there are consequences. What if your boss publicly admitted that you had a
— Read on www.kctv5.com/content/tncms/live/
35,000 cases to review. Case data going back to the 1980s. One underfunded and unmotivated State Attorney General is interviewed in this story. The FBI Director wrote a 2016 letter saying their hair experts were giving false testimony in these cases.
WBTV Investigates: Attorney General’s Office continues review, years after promising to start
— Read on www.wbtv.com/2021/10/07/early-review-finds-900-cases-where-debunked-science-was-used-by-prosecutors/
Family asking for public help. Crime lab output delays are unacceptable.
A father is making an emotional plea and putting up $25,000 of his own money to help find his son’s killer. He is also asking the Problem Solvers to look into the time it has taken for DNA evidence to be tested in this case and others.
— Read on kdvr.com/news/local/dna-in-murder-case-sits-in-denver-crime-lab-for-11-months/
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