• driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br
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    1 year ago

    Forensic sciences are in general a big scam used by prosecutors to put innocent people on jail. Hope this dosen’t become the new “hair evidence”.

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      1 year ago

      There’s a big difference between DNA testing and things like “body language science,” and polygraph testing.

      Like a massive gulf.

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      Yeah, the American Bar Association said “Telling a jury it is implausible that anyone besides the suspect would have the same DNA test results is seldom, if ever, justified.”

      Cross contamination could likelyonly get worse if you include airborn or otherwise mobile DNA as part of your samples.