Round-up: A Lot Of CSI-Style Forensics Have Turned Out To Be Bogus

Round-up: A Lot of CSI-Style Forensics Have Turned Out to be Bogus

Basically a lot of it is pseudoscience that was never rigorously tested in controlled situations to see if it actually worked.

This is because it was not developed by scientists, but by police, and mainly with an interest in putting people in prison rather than uncovering the truth.

At least two dozen people have been falsely convicted due to “Bite Mark Analysis”.

“Burn pattern analysis” put an innocent man to death in Texas

“Blood Spatter analysis” such as that shown on the TV show Dexter is actually completely unreliable even according to the US Department of Justice

Forensic hair comparison is also widely believed to be junk science and the FBI is currently reviewing convictions based on hair analysis due to the unreliability of their results

Handwriting analysis has an unreasonably high error rate, by some accounts as high as 43%

Lie detector tests, or polygraphs, are notoriously unreliable and based on bad science. Even though everybody knows this, they are still constantly being used in criminal investigations among other places.

Toxicology labs can be poorly supervised and badly run, producing false and even fraudulent results

Due to sloppy procedure at many labs and lack of regulation even DNA testing is often unreliable

Even when correct results are produced, genetic profiles may be less useful than we have been lead to believe

Fingerprinting analysis is not foolproof and actually has not been thoroughly tested, as this Frontline special discusses

Here are a few more articles on how unreliable modern forensics are.

Unfortunately due to TV shows that stress forensic investigation, juries are demanding this kind of evidence at trial, and have little idea of how untested and unreliable it really is.

Filling In The Gaps

When we write, sometimes a story comes with all the pieces stuck together for you. Most of the time, it comes piece by piece. Here’s to finding the pieces to go with the ones you already have.

Need a Genre:

I think this will help

List of Genres (play darts with it or something)

Need a Plot:

Adventure Generator (Fantasy)

Plot Idea Generator (can get a little wacky)

Plot Twist Generator (General)

Genre-based Plot Generators

SO MANY PLOTS

Really random plot generator

“Put your character in a bad situation” Generator

Need (a) Character(s):

Name Generator (Fantasy)

Name Generator (All Genres, including Surnames)

All the Character Generators (I’m not kidding.)

EVERY SINGLE CHARACTER GENERATOR (You still think I’m kidding)

Another character description generator (General)

Character Backstory/Details/Appearance Generators

Or just look through Pinterest “Character Inspiration” boards. So many good faces on there. I like this board and this one.

Need a Setting:

World Generator (Fantasy)

Fictional Location Generator (General)

City Generator

Fill out your Setting Generators

Need a Scene:

Ask These Guys for a prompt!

Prompty prompt prompts

I Just Need Something!:

First Line Generator (you will spend most of your time laughing)

Prophecy Generator (to make you feel all foreboding and such)

This link has plot and genre and character building helps.

All the generators!

Title Generator

Just search for writing prompts! Tumblr has SO MANY, and Pinterest has just as many.

Go forth and conquer, friends.

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aedysa

6 years ago

Some of Kageie’s background story was revealed in the latest Tenka event before his MS will come out…

I’d like to put here my summary.

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After his father and mother’s deaths. His uncle took hold of the head of the family and drove him off the castle together with his younger brother (Norikage) who was suffered from heart’s illness and needed medicine for living.

He found himself an underground job which later his skill was impressed and hired by a samurai then he slowly made his recognition as a good fighter.

Fate shifted when his younger brother was killed by those who served the same samurai. After that he lived his life with no strings attached, never had any home, never trust or be in deep relationship with anyone.

Returned himself to his underground job. One day…surrounded by too many opponents. He fled to a woman who he was recently with but obviously…was rejected.

Severely wounded with noone and no place to return to. Rolling like a garbage…he started to lose all hope in everything even a string of his own life.

Then emerged before his bloody blurry eyes…

A strangely beautiful figure in beautiful hagama…

「Will you come with me?」

Words that had brought an unexpected road. He stared up to that eyes…eyes that full of melancholy as much as his then a finger pointed to his chest had opened the path that light could shine through…

That’s how Kageie has come to Lord Kenshin.

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aedysa

6 years ago