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
- Sen. Friedman promotes bill to help families coping with child deaths
- Friedman's bill would address this issue by requiring the chief medical examiner to review and approve the autopsy report for a child younger than age 2 in order to determine the cause of death. Changes to the autopsy report would also have to be reviewed and approved by the chief medical examiner.
- Genesee County medical examiner testifies in ‘cereal murder’ case
- All those negative findings at autopsy must mean the defendant spiked his wife’s cereal with heroin, right?
- Their baby fell from a lawn chair, but doctors flagged his injuries as abuse. Then CPS came for the children.
- “Overzealous” is putting it mildly.
- Federal Judge in Texas Fines CPS $50K a Day for “Shameful” Foster Care: CPS has “Lied to me at almost Every Level”
- More CPS folly.
- Kent County father gets prison time for shaking baby to death
- Side-to-side shaking?
- Medical examiner testifies on the brutal last moments of Everglades kidnapping murder
- She walked jurors through Salazar’s last moments in the brutal killing prosecutors say was orchestrated by Presidente Supermarket owner Manuel Marin after he learned his wife was having an affair with Salazar. [Were these "last moments" witnessed, or are they part of a prosecutor theory? The story is not clear on this.]
- Clues to Mysterious Deaths: Doctors Who Help
- With the toddler case, Dr. Thomas Andrew gets sucked in by the Sherlock Effect.
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