This comes to us hard on the heels of philosopher Massimo Pigliucci’s effort to identify “pseudoscience.”
— Read on evolutionnews.org/2024/07/three-genuine-tells-of-junk-science/
The remains are the first from those graves to be linked directly to the massacre, in which white people killed as many as 300 Black people.
— Read on www.wbay.com/2024/07/12/wwi-veteran-is-first-identified-victim-1921-tulsa-massacre-since-mass-graves-found-mayor-says/
USDOJ funding for these cases is paltry and poorly organized due to bureaucratic and Congressional apathy.
https://www.wral.com/video/6-200-cold-cases-unsolved-in-north-carolina/21517519/
I have co-existed with these dentists for decades. Some are sincere and thoughtful. Others are raging egotists. None are trained as a “scientist .” The outrageous cases like McCrory’s (see the link below) over the last 2 decades have led many of the 100 members of the American Board of Dorensic Odontology to refuse to continue participating in bitemark cases. The younger members of the ABFO, however, have been forced to train from the last few true bitemark believers who gather for their for-profit “fellowships” at U of Texas San Antonio. These new dentists are forced to certify with the ABFO due to the mandates of the US Department of Justice and National Asso of Medical Examiners. This is beyond incredible. No non ABFO dentist is allowed to associate with US Medical Examiners/Coroners who want to /apply/remain NAME certified. The USDOJ now refuses to allow me to continue my contract with the NIJ funded NAMUS missing and unidentified system because I resigned from the ABFO in 2012. The reasons I quit are well described in this latest bitemark conviction litigation that petitioned the US Supreme Court for review. The motion to hear was denied. A dissenting brief of Justice Sotomayor, however, struck to the heart of the ABFO’s forensic misdeeds in her statement that “bitemark forensics is a faulty science.” Read this article from the Guardian about a superstar bitemarker whose history of faulty expertise has led to MULTIPLE false convictions with later exonerations. He also led a coven of his colleagues’ attempt to get me thrown out of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences for not folllowing their “science and “testifying for profit.” Many of these “experts” made $50,000 or more per case.
Police around the US say they’re justified to run DNA-generated 3D models of faces through facial recognition tools to help crack cold cases. Everyone but the cops thinks that’s a bad idea.
— Read on www.wired.com/story/parabon-nanolabs-dna-face-models-police-facial-recognition/
AI discovers that not every fingerprint is un | EurekAlert!
— Read on www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1030475
The state can provide the wrongfully convicted compensation of $50,000 for each year of incarceration, but the law’s narrow criteria and confusion over eligibility leave former prisoners facing another system that seems stacked against them.
— Read on www.propublica.org/article/why-michigan-failing-compensate-wrongly-convicted-despite-law
In France, experts are often selected by judges from lists published by the courts.
— Read on www.newindianexpress.com/opinions/2024/jan/03/a-need-to-define-forensic-expertise-2647232.html
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