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
- What can a tiny bone tell us about Jeffrey Epstein's death?
- According to reports, Epstein had tied a bed-sheet to the bunk and kneeled on the ground and then leaned forward to kill himself. That maneuver, Wecht said, is not conducive to breaking bones. "In majority of those you don't see fractures because there is no great amount of force," said Wecht. "It's basic physics."
- “They think it’s a phone call to God”: inside the looming crisis in British criminal forensics
- Still clueless.
- Big changes are coming to the Northwest Florida medical examiner's office
- The Board of County Commissioners voted unanimously Monday to approving the agreement, which represents a new approach the four counties are taking to funding the medical examiner's office. The biggest change involves forming a nonprofit organization through which the counties will contract for autopsy services, as opposed to contracting with a private business as they do now.
- 'Nothing more than an opinion': Jeanine Pirro doubts medical examiner's ruling on Epstein death
- “This medical examiner took extra time from Saturday to Friday since the autopsy to put the facts together and synthesize the results determine the manner of death. How do you determine the manner of death when there are no cameras, no cellmates, guard are sleeping, some of them are even refusing to cooperate. Did that medical examiner have a total picture?” she asked.
- The Role Of Scientific Forensic Evidence Questioned In Pending Texas Execution
- What prosecutors call a “mountain of circumstantial evidence” most of the time ends up being the Sherlock Effect.
- CSI not so scientific: Doubt cast on veracity of forensic evidence
- Another yawner from down under.
- Innocent faces of 63 kids killed by violent parents — and let down by the law
- Clueless in the UK.
- N.Y.P.D. Detectives Gave a Boy, 12, a Soda. He Landed in a DNA Database.
- Dr. Young: Unless law enforcement officers learn about and avoid the Sherlock Effect, DNA collected this way into databases becomes a real problem, and the opportunities for false convictions go way up.
- Prosecution expert: South Barrington woman's 2000 drowning a homicide
- Dr. Young: Many experts all saying different things. No witness accounts for any of it. Sherlock Effect.
- Autopsy finds Jeffrey Epstein had several broken neck bones
- Jeffrey Epstein’s autopsy determined the convicted pedophile suffered multiple broken neck bones, according to a report.
- JEFFREY EPSTEIN AUTOPSY FINDS HYOID NECK BONE BREAK, EXPERT SAYS IT RAISES 'QUESTIONS ABOUT STRANGULATION': REPORT
- A New York Times report said the two guards responsible for checking on Epstein every 30 minutes on Saturday had fallen asleep for three hours and then falsified records to cover it up. It appears that during this window Epstein took his own life. [Dr. Young: Notice how convenient it is to eliminate an eyewitness account simply by oversleeping. Without a witness account to compare to the physical evidence from the autopsy, we cannot know for sure what happened.]
- Michael Baden: The Man Linking Epstein, MLK, O.J. and JFK
- The family enlists the help of Sherlock Holmes to offer another plausible explanation.
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