Zombiepirate

Really puts the "anal" in analysis, if true.

More proof that the War on "Drugs" is largely an authoritarian criminalization of untreated mental health issues.

We shouldn't lock people up for addiction any more than we should lock people up over depression.

I hate the euphemism of "self-deport."

Let's call it what it really is: ICE threatened to lock him up and send him to an undisclosed location if he didn't flee the country.

Sure, but that's not what police refer to when they talk about blood spatter analysis. I'm not saying it's impossible to get good evidence from the location of blood; I'm saying that the bullshit they do around drop size and splatter patterns does not have any evidence to support it.

Edit: in other words, they want the credibility of science without doing the hard work of peer-review or falsification.

Trump isn't doing anything different than he did last time; the only change is scope.

This dipshit really thought that Trump would expose Epstein's clients even though he wished Ghislane Maxwell well? You have to be a special kind of stupid to fall for that.

From ProPublica:

The reliability of bloodstain-pattern analysis has never been definitively proven or quantified, but largely due to the testimony of criminalist Herbert MacDonell, it was steadily admitted in court after court around the country in the 1970s and ’80s. MacDonell spent his career teaching weeklong “institutes” in bloodstain-pattern analysis at police departments around the country, training hundreds of officers who, in turn, trained hundreds more.

While there is no index that lists cases in which bloodstain-pattern analysis played a role, state appellate court rulings show that the technique has played a factor in felony cases across the country. Additionally, it has helped send innocent people to prison. From Oregon to Texas to New York, convictions that hinged on the testimony of a bloodstain-pattern analyst have been overturned and the defendants acquitted or the charges dropped.

In 2009, a watershed report commissioned by the National Academy of Sciences cast doubt on the discipline, finding that “the uncertainties associated with bloodstain-pattern analysis are enormous,” and that experts’ opinions were generally “more subjective than scientific.” More than a decade later, few peer-reviewed studies exist, and research that might determine the accuracy of analysts’ findings is close to nonexistent.

Cops and pseudoscience go together like chocolate and peanut butter.

For more examples, see "bite mark analysis," "911 call analysis," "blood spatter analysis," roadside drug testing with known false-positives, and even fingerprints (once the gold standard) have up to a 20% error rate.

And that's not even getting into how their methodology is exactly backwards: they have a claim that they set out to prove, but do no work to disprove what they already believe.

Cops and pseudoscience go together like chocolate and peanut butter.

For more examples, see "bite mark analysis," "911 call analysis," "blood spatter analysis," roadside drug testing with known false-positives, and even fingerprints (once the gold standard) have up to a 20% error rate.

And that's not even getting into how their methodology is exactly backwards: they have a claim that they set out to prove, but do no work to disprove what they already believe.

Reactionaries see the Constitution in the same way they view the Bible: they get to make up insane justifications for doing the exact opposite of what it says.

Wow, they really got the chatbot to sound like a right-wing debate bro shithead. They must have had a lot of training data laying around somewhere.

Subscribe to different comms. There's a lot of creativity on here, look at !artshare@lemmy.world

When you ride alone, you ride with MechaHitler.