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Police forensics labs beg to disagree: https://newatlas.com/3d-id-skull-forensic-software/22137/ https://newatlas.com/3d-id-skull-forensic-software/22137/
by sadris 8y ago
Police forensics labs beg to disagree: https://newatlas.com/3d-id-skull-forensic-software/22137/ https://newatlas.com/3d-id-skull-forensic-software/22137/
- DmenshunlAnlsis 8y agoPolice forensics labs are about as scientific as psychics and phrneologists. https://www.nature.com/news/faulty-forensic-science-under-fire-1.14664 https://www.nature.com/news/faulty-forensic-science-under-fi... https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/forensic-tools-whats-reliable-and-whats-not-so-scientific/ https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/forensic-tools-wh... https://phys.org/news/2015-05-fbi-hair-analysis-problems-reveal.html https://phys.org/news/2015-05-fbi-hair-analysis-problems-rev...
- jazoom 8y agoI don't know if their definition of race is different to most people's definition, but in medicine we often want to know someone's race since it has real implications for the types of diseases they're likely to have. Often culture and country play a big role, but the genetics also do.
- et2o 8y agoAgree that there are very important genetic components to disease (it's what I study), but the article points out that the "races" we use now are pretty arbitrary and do a bad job categorizing people's generic makeup. For example, there is more genetic diversity in Africa than the rest of the world combined, yet we in the United States basically just would think of their race as "African," and this is not a very helpful description.
- jazoom 8y agoEven worse, I've noticed in USA you seem to classify "white" as a race, which is absurd.