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102: The Science of Forensics (with Eleanor Neale)
1 hour 11 minutes Posted Mar 29, 2021 at 4:00 am.
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This week Eleanor Neale joins us to chat about forensics, and why it might not be as good as you think...

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References & Further Reading

Basics of Forensics
  1. https://www.britannica.com/science/forensic-science
  2. https://books.google.co.uk/books?hl=en&lr=&id=zIRQOssWbaoC&oi=fnd&pg=PA1&dq=history+of+forensic+science&ots=wJZ2sXZM1X&sig=ME5kNe5qa4mWvb0f2Xig_ikUP4c#v=onepage&q=history%20of%20forensic%20science&f=false
  3. https://science.howstuffworks.com/forensic-lab-technique.htm
  4. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.sciencefocus.com/the-human-body/what-is-forensic-science/amp/
History of Forensics
  1. https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007/978-1-4614-5690-2_462
  2. https://www.crimemuseum.org/crime-library/forensic-investigation/origins-of-forensic-science/
  3. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/9783527827688.ch1
  4. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/326051477_History_of_Forensic_Science
  5. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-watch/wp/2015/04/21/a-brief-history-of-forensics/%3FoutputType%3Damp
  6. https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2F978-1-4614-5690-2_462.pdf
Problems with Forensics
  1. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0162243919899467
  2. https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20150512-can-we-trust-forensic-science
  3. https://science.sciencemag.org/content/360/6386/243.summary
  4. https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/234561565.pdf
  5. https://rss.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1740-9713.2019.01250.x
  6. https://innocenceproject.org/overturning-wrongful-convictions-involving-flawed-forensics/
  7. https://www.britannica.com/technology/lie-detector
  8. https://www.apa.org/research/action/polygraph#:~:text=The%20accuracy%20(i.e.%2C%20validity),person%20may%20be%20non%2Danxious
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