Forensic Pathology News
Dr. Young will post links to news articles that interest him about
forensic pathology, medical examiners, coroners and death
investigation in this section.
Pathology in the News
- Pain of losing loved ones in accident compounded by autopsy delays, say Manitoba families
- Many families in western Manitoba have recently waited 10 to 14 days for an autopsy when bodies were sent to Winnipeg, according to one Brandon funeral director — something he said several funeral directors in the region have been experiencing.
- Man given bond as he faces trial on Wayne County Jail homicide
- On Oct. 23, 2019, about 3:25 a.m., Antonio James, 29, was found unresponsive in his cell. He died of blunt force trauma to the head, said the Wayne County Medical Examiner's Office. There were bite marks on his left arm and the right side of his neck. [Bite marks unreliably surmised from an autopsy.]
- Her Lawyers Say She Was Coerced To Plead Guilty To A Crime That Never Happened
- Dr. Young: Are you shocked? By now you shouldn't be.
- Lots of Drugs, Lax Oversight: Former SF Medical Examiner Staffers Say Lab Analyst's Meth Arrest 'Just the Tip of the Iceberg'
- The former colleagues who worked at the toxicology lab until recently said the lab’s supervisors allowed illicit drugs to pile up in the evidence room, let protocols lapse designed to prevent evidence mishandling and ignored Volk’s increasingly erratic behavior.
- The Slow, Troubling Death of the Autopsy
- Why you should get an autopsy if it’s the last thing you do
Pathology Links
- ACCPE means Affirming the Consequent for Complex Past Events. It is The Sherlock Effect.
- Whenever an expert states the past events that occurred on the basis of looking only at the physical evidence without reference to eyewitness statements, he or she is Affirming the Consequent for Complex Past Events. This is not only logically invalid and unsound, it never works in practice, Sherlock Holmes, CSI and Bones notwithstanding. Whenever ACCPE is listed in my comments to a news article, recognize one more tragic example of how this fallacy can destroy lives. ACCPE can also be understood as "backward reasoning,""effect-to-cause reasoning," or "abductive inference."
- American Academy of Forensic Sciences
- ForensicScienceDegree.org
- For further information on forensic science.
- National Association of Medical Examiners