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Crime Lab Report - New Book Calls For Expert Witnesses To Work Directly For Judges

Forensic science does not prove guilt or innocence. It never has and it never will. The next time you hear about DNA evidence, for example, proving the guilt or innocence of a suspect in a violent…

What Sex Reassignment Surgery Is Really Like, at Least For Me.

Sex Reassignment Surgery in Transgender women is a misunderstood, maligned, and mysterious procedure. Thursday I will have this procedure sometimes called Gender Confirmation…

The Plot Of The Week - Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay At Reach

The most recent preprint in the ArXiv this evening is an APPEC report on the neutrinoless double beta decay. This is the thick result of a survey of the state of the art in the search for a very…

For Valentine's Day, Academics Want More Women With God Complexes In Films

Films have been common for over a century and a new paper laments that for much of that time men have been the unhinged scientists with a 'God complex', because by not having more 'mad' women in the…