That seems to be the norm with a lot of, um, creative criminal forensics. Bite mark identification was used forever until blown up by particularly shameless gr

That seems to be the norm with a lot of, um, creative criminal forensics. Bite mark identification was used forever until blown up by particularly shameless grifting, and has never been shown to work as practiced. [1] Tennessee still uses dowsing rods. [2] Fingerprinting as practiced is a bundle of folk practice, guesses, and some science. Quality varies wildly. [3] Fiber analysis, lie detectors, spatter analysis and many more techniques are all crap. When one bogus method is finally found legally unreliable, cops and prosecutors find a new one. [1] https://innocenceproject.olemiss.edu/radley-balko-reports-on-bite-mark-analysis-and-the-wrongly-convicted/ https://innocenceproject.olemiss.edu/radley-balko-reports-on... [2] https://www.themarshallproject.org/2022/03/17/witching-dowsing-buried-bodies-police https://www.themarshallproject.org/2022/03/17/witching-dowsi... [3] https://www.aaas.org/resources/latent-fingerprint-examination https://www.aaas.org/resources/latent-fingerprint-examinatio...