forensic science
Bite-Mark Matching Falsely Imprisoned These Men For Rape and Murder
The claim that a suspect's teeth can be matched to a mark on a body is junk forensic science, but it still put innocent people in jail.
If Your Cells Continue to Function, What Does it Mean to Die?
"Am I my liver, my stomach, my kidney? All these things still work when I am dead."
Forensic Experts in Texas Are Calling on Courts to Stop Accepting Bite-Mark Evidence
The Texas Forensic Science Commission has recommended a moratorium on bite-mark analysis until further research can establish whether it's actually reliable.
Learning to Read Corpses at the Texas State Body Farm
I talked with Dr. Daniel Wescott, director of the Texas State Forensic Anthropology Center, about how bodies decompose in the wild and what our bones say about us.
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