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
- Briton Audrey Schoeman revived after six-hour cardiac arrest
- Combining cold temperatures and hypoglycemia (which doesn't allow as much production of lactic acid) allows someone to be revived after 6 hours.
- 'Anti-vaxxer' charged as Samoan government battles deadly measles outbreak
- Do beliefs against vaccination have anything to do with the Sherlock Effect? Indeed, they do.
- Coroner suspends inquest into police shooting of Northern Arapaho man
- An inquest is not necessary, and there is no need to call the manner, "undetermined."
- Forensics on call: A new Texas team is ready to respond to the state’s mass fatalities
- That day, those five individuals would make up the first official Texas Mass Fatality Operations Response Team—a new, statewide, around-the-clock response asset for death investigations and forensic support known as TMORT.
- Prosecutor considers immunity for baby’s mother
- "I am trying to determine what the best way is to make sure we get justice,” White said. “At this point, I am still contemplating what is the best way to make that happen. In a perfect world I could charge him and I could charge her. But given the fact they are the only two who know parts of what happened, I have to tread carefully.” [Parts of what happened?]
- Jail for father who failed parent's 'core duty' when he shook baby son
- Note the list of shaking offenders at the end of the article. This is all ridiculous.
- Despite fabricating degree, top official in medical examiner’s office promoted back into management
- A top official in the state medical examiner’s office, who was demoted last year amid revelations she claimed to have a psychology degree she never earned, has been promoted to a management role overseeing staff across the state for the agency, and at a higher salary than before she was downgraded.
- Hundreds of parents say kids wrongly taken from them after doctors misdiagnosed abuse
- ‘They made us feel like we were monsters’
- Royer to face charges in baby’s death
- In the February death of 5-month-old Luna Royer-King of Coldwater, University of Michigan Dr. Carla Renkin-Joseph testified Wednesday she believes “the injuries were of typical abuse.”
- Zymere Perkins was beaten and battered for months before death: medical examiner
- Fact or fiction? Witnessed or invented?
- Coroner rules infant died from blunt force injuries
- Fact or fiction? Witnessed or invented?
- Coroner rules infant’s death a homicide
- More on story above.
- Crack down on genomic surveillance
- Do you remember “Big Brother” from the George Orwell novel, “1984”? Well, he may be watching you and your DNA.
- Science serving justice
- “ With geospatial mapping the lab can convert that data into intelligence and tell the police if the same gun has been used in multiple shootings.” Be careful.
- Pierce County Medical Examiner’s Office is a hot mess. New boss, and a million dollars, better fix it
- Taxpayers, take note: The Pierce County government job that earns the largest paycheck is about to be lifted into an even higher salary orbit.
- Lawsuit: Medical examiner's assistant says he was made 'scapegoat'
- Veteran death investigator Armando Chavez has sued the county, alleging he was a “scapegoat” in the controversy over postmortem procedures he conducted in 2015 in the Ventura County Medical Examiner’s Office while his boss was on vacation.
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