NYT- Psychiatry is Next (Crime Labs forced to get real- valid science now demanded)
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Subject: NYT- Psychiatry is Next (Crime Labs forced to get real- valid
science now demanded)
Date: Feb 19, 2009 4:03 AM
Justice Department not happy they will no longer
be able to rely on psychiatric bullshit and invented
"evidence" - like Park Dietz and the other perverts
in medicine:
http://www.actionlyme.org/andersonpenisbiter.htm
The Religion of Me-and-Sex, as "social engineering."
Yesterday's NYT article:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/19/us/19forensics.html
The demands for reality from medical science are converging:
1) the monkey psychotropics-abuse, and 2) now crime labs are going
to be called to do the real science- prove their *methods*
and labs are scientifically validated and independent.
This is the end of psychiatry, which means the ALDF is
not going to be able to use that "tool" to abuse Lyme
victims.
As far as intent?
"But as useful as hypocrisy can be, it’s apparently not quite as basic
as the human instinct to do unto others as you would have them do unto
you. Your mind can justify double standards, it seems, but in your
heart you know you’re wrong."
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/01/science/01tier.html
Psychiatry also settled that question.
As far as intent cross-indexed with immaturity and
the mitigation of brain damage from psychotropics?
The "courts" will now be *forced* to look at the scientific
evidence showing that all psychotropics are brain damaging.
"Real scientists are fiercely independent. That's the
*good* news..." - Anthony Fauci
Kathleen M. Dickson
http://www.actionlyme.org
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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/19/us/19forensics.html
February 19, 2009
Study Calls for Oversight of Forensics in Crime Labs
By SOLOMON MOORE
Crime laboratories around the country are grossly underfunded, lack a
scientific foundation and are compromised by critical delays in
analyzing physical evidence, according to a broad study of forensic
techniques published Wednesday by the National Academy of Sciences,
the nation’s premier scientific body.
Among its many criticisms, the study counted a backlog of 359,000
requests for forensic analysis in 2005, a 24 percent increase in
delays since 2002. A survey of crime laboratories found 80 percent of
them to be understaffed.
A new federal agency is needed to regulate these laboratories,
standardize forensic techniques and pay for research, according to the
report, which was financed by Congress in 2005.
The study recommends that an agency, to be called the National
Institute of Forensic Science, be created and be independent of the
Justice Department, which has traditionally been the nation’s primary
forensics research agency. Crime laboratories should be managed
separately from police departments to ensure that their findings are
protected from bias, the report said.
“The potential for conflicts of interest between the needs of law
enforcement and the broader needs of forensic science are too great,”
the authors wrote.
The report, the product of a two-year review by the academy, an
independent body, is not legally binding. But legislators from both
parties have already committed to holding hearings on the study, and
officials from all the federal law enforcement agencies are reviewing
the document in anticipation of possible policy changes.
“I am troubled by the report’s general finding that far too many
forensic disciplines lack the standards necessary to ensure their
scientific reliability in court,” said Senator Patrick J. Leahy,
Democrat of Vermont and chairman of the Judiciary Committee.
Senator Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, the ranking Republican on the
committee, said he was also troubled by the findings.
The report calls into question the scientific merit of virtually every
commonly used forensic method, including analysis of fingerprints,
hair, fibers, blood spatters, ballistics and arson. Only DNA, which
the panel said had benefited from rigorous scientific scrutiny and
peer review outside of the forensics discipline, escaped significant
criticism.
“The fact is that many forensic tests, such as those used to infer the
source of tooth marks and bite marks, have never been exposed to
stringent scientific scrutiny,” the report said. The report highlights
crime laboratory scandals involving hundreds of tainted cases handled
by police agencies in Michigan, Texas and West Virginia, and by the
Federal Bureau of Investigation. At least 10 wrongly convicted men
have been exonerated as a result of those laboratory investigations,
and the cases of hundreds of other people convicted with the help of
those facilities are under review.
The panel also found that most of the nation is served by death
investigation offices that lack accreditation. It cited an 18-year-old
high school student in Indiana who was recently elected deputy coroner
after a short training course.
The academy said that in addition, judges and lawyers generally lacked
the scientific expertise necessary to “comprehend and evaluate
forensic evidence in an informed manner.”
Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. said his office would be reviewing
the report over the next several days.
“We have the potential to solve a lot of crimes, to find people who
are guilty and to absolve a lot of people who are not through the use
of these great forensic techniques,” Mr. Holder said.
Justice Department officials declined to comment on specific
recommendations, including the establishment of a National Institute
of Forensic Science.
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