Forenscis: Syria ‘finds body of archaeologist Khaled al-Asaad beheaded by IS’

He died protecting his beloved Palmyra.

Syria ‘finds body of archaeologist Khaled al-Asaad beheaded by IS’ – BBC News
— Read on www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/world-middle-east-55977964

Posted in AAFS, Crime, Forensic Science | Tagged , , | Leave a comment

Forensics: Politicians ran this Covid -19 shitshow. Trump officials lobbied to deny states money for vaccine rollout last fall 

Top Trump officials actively lobbied Congress to deny state governments any extra funding for the Covid-19 vaccine rollout last fall.
— Read on www.statnews.com/2021/01/31/trump-officials-lobbied-to-deny-states-money-for-vaccine-rollout/

Posted in AAFS, junk forensic science, Mass Disaster recovery | Tagged | Leave a comment

Forensics: Donald Trump, the DOJ, and forensics: the administration snuck in one last push for junk science in courts.

Apparently, high-school science is beyond the ken of these law school geniuses at the DOJ. They quack like little lame 🦆ies.

Donald Trump, the DOJ, and forensics: the administration snuck in one last push for junk science in courts.
— Read on slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/02/trump-doj-forensic-science-pcast.amp

Posted in AAFS, ABFO, Bad Forensic Science, Bite Marks, Bitemarks, costs of wrongful convictions, forensic evidence exaggeration, Forensic Science, Forensic Science Bias, junk forensic science | Tagged , | Leave a comment

Forensics: Donald Trump, the DOJ, and forensics: the administration snuck in one last push for junk science in courts.

Apparently, high-school science is beyond the ken of these law school geniuses at the DOJ. They quack like little lame 🦆ies.

Donald Trump, the DOJ, and forensics: the administration snuck in one last push for junk science in courts.
— Read on slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/02/trump-doj-forensic-science-pcast.amp

Posted in AAFS, ABFO, Bad Forensic Science, Bitemarks, costs of wrongful convictions, criminal justice reform, CSI, forensic evidence exaggeration, Forensic Science, Forensic Science Bias, forensic science misconduct, junk forensic science, US Crime labs | Tagged , | Leave a comment

Forensics: A comparison of computed tomography, X‐ray and Lodox® scans in assessing pediatric skull fractures using piglets – Spies – – Journal of Forensic Sciences – Wiley Online Library

No magic bullet but actual cross-modality imagery testing is valuable.

A comparison of computed tomography, X‐ray and Lodox® scans in assessing pediatric skull fractures using piglets – Spies – – Journal of Forensic Sciences – Wiley Online Library
— Read on onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1556-4029.14614

Posted in AAFS, forensic pathology, Forensic Science | Tagged | Leave a comment

Forensics: Comparing three Covid-19 vaccines: Pfizer, Moderna, J&J

In some respects, it’s easy to make direct comparisons between the three vaccines; in others, it’s more complicated.
— Read on www.statnews.com/2021/02/02/comparing-the-covid-19-vaccines-developed-by-pfizer-moderna-and-johnson-johnson/

Posted in AAFS, Center for Disease Control, Mass Disaster recovery | Tagged | Leave a comment

Forensics: Love those molars. Neanderthal teeth hint at interbreeding with modern humans – News Centre – University of Kent

My new forensic avatar will be a bicuspid. Bio-arch rocks! (A attempt at paronomasia).

Neanderthal teeth hint at interbreeding with modern humans – News Centre – University of Kent
— Read on www.kent.ac.uk/news/science/27738/neanderthal-teeth-hint-at-interbreeding-with-modern-humans

Posted in AAFS, human identification | Tagged , | Leave a comment

Forensics: Criminality. Trump officials lobbied to deny states money for vaccine rollout last fall 

Top Trump officials actively lobbied Congress to deny state governments any extra funding for the Covid-19 vaccine rollout last fall.
— Read on www.statnews.com/2021/01/31/trump-officials-lobbied-to-deny-states-money-for-vaccine-rollout/

Posted in AAFS, human rights violations, Mass Disaster recovery | Tagged | Leave a comment

Forensics: More on injustice in US criminal courts. Public Defenders Suffer From the ‘Stress of Injustice’: Study

Public Defenders Suffer From the ‘Stress of Injustice’: Study | The Crime Report
— Read on thecrimereport.org/2021/01/26/public-defenders-suffer-from-the-stress-of-injustice-study/

Posted in AAFS, criminal justice, criminal justice reform | Tagged , | Leave a comment

Forensics: Disparate legal standards. One for the rich, one for the poor. Georgia Offers Unequal Expert Evidence Standards

Guess who gets the benefit, and who gets the shaft. It is glaring proof that the two tier legal structure of rich vs poor really exists. The second proof is the inequitable funding of prosecutors, providing DAs with distinct advantages over threadbare public defenders.

“A civil defendant’s money is protected against unreliable science but a criminal defendant’s life is not.”
— Read on www.law.com/dailyreportonline/2021/01/27/georgia-can-do-better-than-offer-uniquely-unequal-expert-evidence-standards/

Posted in AAFS, Community Dentistry, criminal justice, criminal justice reform, Forensic Science, Forensic science misconduct, forensic science reform, junk forensic science, Medical errors, prosecutorial misconduct, US traitors, insurrection, US Capitol attacks | Tagged | Leave a comment