Today's' Guardian had an article about junk science forensics:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/apr/28/forensics-bite-mark-junk-science-charles-mccrory-chris-fabricant
What caught my eye [among other things in an interesting article]:
What united the group of 12 “founding fathers” of forensic odontology
was the belief that bite mark evidence could be used as a new tool up
there with fingerprints, toxicology and other established methods.
And I got to thinking about fingerprints: is there actually real science
that fingerprints are unique? Or are fingerprints just "established" [somehow] .. Apparently they're at least sometimes not unique:
https://mathblog.com/are-fingerprints-unique/
and I wonder how hard/easy it is to contest "fingerprint evidence". My guess it is very hard, but not for any proven scientific reason, just "tradition"
/Bernie\
Today's' Guardian had an article about junk science forensics:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/apr/28/forensics-bite-mark-junk-science-charles-mccrory-chris-fabricant
What caught my eye [among other things in an interesting article]:
What united the group of 12 “founding fathers” of forensic odontology
was the belief that bite mark evidence could be used as a new tool up
there with fingerprints, toxicology and other established methods.
And I got to thinking about fingerprints: is there actually real science
that fingerprints are unique? Or are fingerprints just "established" >[somehow] .. Apparently they're at least sometimes not unique:
https://mathblog.com/are-fingerprints-unique/
and I wonder how hard/easy it is to contest "fingerprint evidence". My >guess it is very hard, but not for any proven scientific reason, just >"tradition"
/Bernie\
Today's' Guardian had an article about junk science forensics:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/apr/28/forensics-bite-mark -junk-science-charles-mccrory-chris-fabricant
What caught my eye [among other things in an interesting article]:
What united the group of 12 “founding fathers” of forensic
odontology was the belief that bite mark evidence could be
used as a new tool up there with fingerprints, toxicology and
other established methods.
And I got to thinking about fingerprints: is there actually real
science that fingerprints are unique? Or are fingerprints just
"established" [somehow] .. Apparently they're at least sometimes
not unique:
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