Always felt like forensic science was a little iffy...listening to Robert discuss some of the foundational cases that established its use in the American legal system disgusts me.
Bottomline, it's mostly subjective analysis. All of it. And the people who suffer are the people well off racists think should suffer.
@Adam_Cadmon1 Yeah. Bite analysis is particularly bullshit. FBI bite analysis "experts" have been repeatedly found unable to distinguish human and animal bites, much less tie a bite mark to a specific human.
"Yeah, this bite mark was clearly left by teeth, and we can all see the suspect has teeth. Must have been him."
@Adam_Cadmon1 I took a forensic science class in college, and the professor repeatedly went over “this should only be used to rule someone out, not to positively identify.”
He went extra hard about that for hair samples. You can say “oh, this hair was a natural blonde, so let’s rule out all the brunettes” but not “the hair matches.”
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