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Forensics: Human and ethical factors seen in police crime lab toxicology failures
Forensics: Denver police crime lab triples number of cases under review in CBI scandal – Colorado Politics
Denver police crime lab triples number of cases under review in CBI scandal – Colorado Politics
— Read on www.coloradopolitics.com/2025/08/22/denver-police-crime-lab-triples-number-of-cases-under-review-in-cbi-scandal/
Forensics: Finally thinkiing like scientists after decades of assumptions. Scientists Think Weird Bloodstain Physics Could Help Solve Murder Cases
The ways that a bloodstain behaves could help show investigators the speed and angle at which blood splattered onto a fabric.
— Read on www.popularmechanics.com/science/a65821542/bloodstain-physics/
Forensics: Meet our cousins. Earliest evidence discovered of interbreeding between Homo sapiens and Neanderthals
Earliest evidence discovered of interbreeding between Homo sapiens and Neanderthals | EurekAlert!
— Read on www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1095212
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Forensics: Team from NJIT Uses Cellphone Location Data to Help Free Wrongly Accused
Forensics Team from NJIT Uses Cellphone Location Data to Help Free Wrongly Accused
— Read on news.njit.edu/forensics-team-njit-uses-location-data-help-free-wrongly-accused
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Forensics: Mentoring stands out as an aid to AI instruction. Scalpels, Simulators, and Struggle: Lessons from an AI Operating Room
While surgical education has always relied on mentorship, the rise of artificial intelligence offers a new way to measure and refine skills; however, data alone can’t teach mastery. It takes a human, with empathy and nuance that no algorithm can fake, to turn metrics into meaningful lessons. The best learning didn’t come from smooth sailing but from frustration and mental sweat, suggesting that a bit of discomfort may be the sharpest “scalpel in the training room.”
— Read on www.acsh.org/news/2025/08/20/scalpels-simulators-and-struggle-lessons-ai-operating-room-49681
Posted in Medical errors, Medicine, Uncategorized
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Forensics: NYPD, prosecutorial misconduct court settlement payouts exceed $77 million, Legal Aid report says
NEW YORK — City taxpayers shelled out more than $77 million to settle lawsuits alleging police and prosecutorial misconduct and overturned convictions through the first six months of the year, according to a new report by the Legal Aid Society. The payouts covered 592 cases of alleged misconduct against the NYPD and city prosecutors that were settled out of court. Two settlements had payouts …
— Read on ca.news.yahoo.com/nypd-prosecutorial-misconduct-court-settlement-170400321.html
Forensics: Despite ongoing proceedings, October execution date set for Texas man in ‘shaken baby’ case
A Texas judge on Wednesday set a new execution date for an autistic man convicted in a problematic “shaken baby” case.
— Read on www.tiogapublishing.com/news/nation/october-execution-date-set-for-texas-man-in-shaken-baby-case/article_d3b87abb-755f-5f7b-b697-14beca47c7c9.html
Forensics: Uranium deaths. Scammers Target Native Communities with Fake RECA Applications After Program Expansion | Health
Maggie Billman (Diné) was at the Eastern Navajo Fair, in Crown Point, New Mexico, last month, when she noticed something that didn’t look right. She approached a booth that was advertising assistance with the new Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (…
— Read on nativenewsonline.net/health/scammers-target-native-communities-with-fake-reca-applications-after-program-expansion
Forensics: Protecting police homicides? When Death Investigations Go Wrong
A growing body of data shows how outdated forensic methods and unreliable expert testimony distort justice.
— Read on innocenceproject.org/news/when-death-investigations-go-wrong-new-research-reveals-the-risks-of-wrongful-conviction/
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