HeyJaredForensic Science*
Forensic science issues, commentary, and discussion by an award-winning 30-year veteran of the industry.
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Fundamentals of Forensic Science 4th edition (opens the original)
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It’s been a while in the making but the 4th edition of Fundamentals of Forensic Science is now available for pre-order! Revised and updated, this edition includes new chapters on The Forensic Industry and Quality Assurance. Subscribers of Forensic Science* can use the 20% off Friends & Family savings code BAFF20 to get your pre-order
The Missing Link* (opens the original)
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I’ve written about supply chains and forensic science* three times now1: the primary discussion, on the complexity of simple-seeming products, and gelato. The through-line is that a finished product carries its manufacturing history in its composition and components; its history becomes meaningful if it can b
Manufacturing Variance as Evidence, or The Vanilla Problem (opens the original)
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I’ve talked about supply chains and forensic science* twice before in this Substack1. I’ve argued that a finished product is an encoded item, that its manufacturing history is embedded in its composition, its components, and the sequence of decisions that produced it. Physical objects are historical events that survive to the present2</
Dry-labbing (opens the original)
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There is a term of art in the forensic sciences (and in scientific research generally) for one of the most brazen forms of fraud a scientist can commit. It is called dry labbing,1 and the name is almost admirably honest about what it describes: a laboratory analysis that is, in the relevant sense, dry.2 No samples are run, no reagents are consumed, and no instruments used. Just a result, conjured from thin air and dressed in the professional costume
Training Day (opens the original)
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Probation comes from the Latin probare, to test, to try, to prove. It is the same root that gives us proof, and probe, and the approbation we extend to something once it has survived scrutiny. A probationary period is supposed to be a period of proving. The employer watches, the new hire performs, and by the end everyone knows whether the person can do the work. That is the theory, anyways, and in most jobs it holds. You can tell inside a few months whether someone can close the register, balanc
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