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Transferability of Microbiome on Clothes as a Tool for Forensic Investigations
- throwup238 2y ago[flagged]
- OutOfHere 2y agoIndeed. "Forensic science" doesn't care about false positives; they only eliminate false negatives. It is not really science. Juries should know better than to rely on it.
- riffic 2y agothe powers that will nail your ass with parallel construction; forensics is simply there to make a case with the air of legitimacy.
- NineStarPoint 2y agoNarrowing things down to “this group of people who live together” would be pretty useful forensically, I don’t really see a problem there. Has all the same issues DNA tests do on the “bullshit for the justice system to abuse” scale though yeah. Jurors will think “ah, science, must be accurate” when there’s any number of ways for things to get muddled in real life conditions.
- r2_pilot 2y agoIt doesn't even narrow it down to groups of people who live together. Consider this situation: your female dog in heat goes and seeks a male dog whose owner robbed a bank. She brings that microbiome contact back to your clothes when she returns. There could be a considerable distance between the two dog owners. Better hope you aren't apprehended or even better "It's not a search we're just patting this cloth against your shirt" in a drag net setting.
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- Log_out_ 2y agoAnother quack science bloom, forensic science should be banned to the quack side of the campus for all the good they do. Bloodsplat patterns, firetraces, only one redeeming factor is dna traces.
- elric 2y ago> only one redeeming factor is dna traces. Is it? DNA can end up in all sorts of places for entirely innocent reasons.
- Thadawan 2y agoI’d agree it depends on the expert https://www.npr.org/2012/09/28/161955789/analysing-the-evidence-on-dna https://www.npr.org/2012/09/28/161955789/analysing-the-evide...