Tag Archives: junk forensic science

#AAFS 2017 : Watch out for the ‘ATTACK of the bite mark matchers’ in NOLA

Have a look at this in depth  Washington Post series about certain ‘scientific’ AAFS members who will be showing off their wares in the Odontology Section this week. This is a small bunch of believers. Two Odontology members, Cynthia Brzozowki … Continue reading

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Todays’ Latest Forensics and Law Info from the Web #AAFS2017

Immigration heroes from the past. The Royal College of Surgeons from 1938. “I am a refugee from Nazi oppression.” Florida finger-print “expert” on the hot seat. Thousands of lawyers notified.  Mr. Palacio is an 18 year crime lab veteran. Epigenetic DNA … Continue reading

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Utter Crap abt Climate Change from Congressional Sci Committee #AAFS2017

All this claptrap from climate deniers hired as Trump’s Congressional ‘science’ appointees relies on claim of “fake data” published a Brit tabloid. If you read through this short piece, it will resound with the “one paper now debunked” proof aka … Continue reading

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A Monopoly Game of Rules: prosecutors, defense attorneys, forensic experts #AAFS2017

More Rules for those interested in how Ethics responsibilities appear in the US legal compendium. All the players are included. Here (at the bottom) is the abstract of a future presentation by Mississippi Innocent Project’s founder and director, Tucker Carrington … Continue reading

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Advances in #Forensic #Science influenced by Exonerations – Peter Neufeld #AAFS2017

This is for those so inclined to wonder “why” scientific advances in forensics suggested by nationally recognized scientists should be shunned, ridiculed and attacked by the police. It has nothing to do with “throwing the baby out with the bath … Continue reading

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Read PCAST’s forensic response to outpouring of resistance by prosecutors and labs

Newly published, it is clear that PCAST on forensic ‘science’ is taking a serious stance to much of the mis-information presented by the host of it’s deniers in the US criminal justice system. That would be prosecutors, the US attorney … Continue reading

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Narrative on forensics NAS/PCAST vs the world of law enforcement

This look hits most of the highs and lows of contentious statements from law enforcement after the President’s Council took on their established police forensic turf. It does mention wrongful convictions stemming from overrated forensic ‘science’ which seemed left out … Continue reading

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Taking pattern evidence two years after burial? Why not? It’s a bitemark

You will love what the ex DA in this decades-old case has to say about “outsiders” causing problems. The State Attorney says this: “Our job is to do justice an to see justice one. We’re not afraid of having evidence … Continue reading

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Another ridiculous bitemark case emerges into public view after 30+ years

The evidence: I’m assisting in two other cases attempting to eradicate junk science within criminal courts. This third case is an example of similar arguments during an adversarial hearing combining attempts to test new DNA evidence and publish research debunking … Continue reading

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Regardless of UK LEO witch hunt, Forensic Expert continues to express herself

I have been following Dr. Waney Squier’s odyssey of medical retribution against her for doubting the ‘science’ behind the over-stimulated use of Shaken Baby criminal convictions. This article shows, after years of bumbling partisan tomfoolery against her, she is not … Continue reading

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