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
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/
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
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/
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/
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/
A wide open look at the face of junk forensics from 2015. The bitemarkers now claim they are “new and improved.” They certainly will argue that myth at upcoming evidentiary hearings in 2 southern states of the US. It is outrageous that US prosecutors still stoop, in 2021, to such abysmal use of these scientific misanthropes.
Forensic dentists who peddled junk science now admit they were wrong. But will their colleagues — and the courts — listen?
— Read on theintercept.com/2015/08/20/flawed-science-of-bite-marks/
Ergodan is a despot.
Abdullah Bozkurt/Stockholm
— Read on nordicmonitor.com/2021/01/top-european-forensic-expert-jailed-for-identifying-ammunitions-sent-to-jihadists-by-turkeys-intelligence/
This is from 2016. Then Trump eviscerated forensic science reform. Prosecutors, some crime lab ppl, and the FBI (Lynch and Sessions) all personally attacked the Obama admin’s (including Eric Lander and the “activist and conflicted” Innocence Project) multiple science commissions critiques of police over-stated crime lab traditions.
Lander is now back in as head of Biden’s Science and Tech Policy which generated so much anguish for these governmental “protectors of forensic integrity.” In particular, the bitemarkers squealed loudly in their seminally stupid “enamel and epidermis” tirade that Zalman and Windell recently skewered in “The Bite Mark Dentists Counterattack on Forensic Science Reform.”
A draft report from a presidential council of science and technology advisers determined that forensic bite-mark analysis has no scientific validity.
— Read on theintercept.com/2016/09/07/white-house-report-concludes-that-bite-mark-analysis-is-junk-science/
Trump obviously ran out of competent lawyers during his last days is obvious. Too bad for his buddies.
UPDATE: Gaps in Trump’s Pardons Apply to Bannon Criminal Charges As Well
— Read on www.justsecurity.org/74241/the-gaps-in-trumps-pardons-how-the-biden-administration-can-still-pursue-justice/
