Evidence

Father Of DNA Evidence Calls For Database To Be Cut  [ 11 September 2009 ]
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On the 25th anniversary of his discovery of DNA fingerprinting, Sir Alec Jeffreys says innocent people should not be on database.
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Technology is neutral. Politicians are evil.
Who set up The 9/11 Job? Not Osama for starters.
Who used it to destroy liberty? Bush, Blair and other fascists.

 

Brett Kavanaugh Accuser Corroboration Is Necessary [ 17 September 2018 ]
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One of the very first things that young litigators learn is that memory is a very, very fickle thing — even memories of traumatic events. In case after case, you’ll encounter two opposing litigants who speak with absolutely fierce conviction about key events in their lives, and those memories will often diverge almost completely. When I was young and naive, I often thought that meant one party was telling truth (my client!), and the other side was full of dirty, vicious liars.

It didn’t take long for me to realize that more often than not both sides believed their own stories, and the longer the case dragged on, the more they hardened in their positions. That’s one reason why good lawyers, when interviewing clients, ask a few simple, key questions. “Did you take notes of these conversations?” “Did you tell anyone else this happened?” “Are there any emails or memos reflecting these agreements?” You’re constantly on a quest for the sword that slays the legal beast — corroborating evidence.

That’s one reason why I’ve always been dissatisfied with the declaration, “Women don’t lie about rape.” Sure, some small number of women do affirmatively lie, but as a general matter, the word “lie” is an odd fit for a real world where perceptions differ and memories are malleable. And, by the way, this isn’t “right-wing denialism,” it’s just scientific fact.

After the Rolling Stone debacle at the University of Virginia, Julia Belluz, Vox’s senior health correspondent and an “evidence enthusiast” wrote an interesting and true piece about the fragility of memory. First, she addresses the reliance on “Jackie’s” memory as the foundation of the story:

This becomes an especially pressing question since it’s clear that the reporter relied on Jackie’s memory — and decades of research have demonstrated that memories are are malleable, fragile, flawed. Memories can be twisted by time. Misinformation can skew people’s memories of events, and completely fabricated memories can even be planted in people such that they weave them into the narrative of their lives.

“Just because someone is telling you something in a lot of detail and with a great amount of confidence,” says Elizabeth Loftus, a cognitive psychologist and one of America’s preeminent researchers on memory, “doesn’t mean it happened.”

Belluz then discusses a number of studies detailing how easy it is to implant memories (in one study, subjects “remembered” details of a surgery that never happened), how matters as simple as sleep deprivation can impact memory, and how even short passages of time can distort recollections. For example, Jackie said her attack happened in 2012. The Rolling Stone story was published in 2014:

Between the time of the alleged UVA attack (2012) and the reporting of the story this year, Loftus said, “You could certainly expect memory to fade, to potentially be contaminated, even if not from external suggestion.”

The conclusion of Belluz’s article is chilling:

But perhaps, if [Rolling Stone reporter Sabrina] Erdely thought more about the tricks memory plays, she would have worked harder to verify the facts — no matter how sensitive. If you understand that memory is a foggy patchwork or synthesis of events and exposures in our lives — and some memories aren’t real — you would probably hesitate before relying solely on a person’s memory.

“It’s very compelling to believe someone’s memory,” said Loftus, “especially when they cry. But I’ve seen people cry over false memories, as well as over real ones.”

Brett Kavanaugh has denied the claims and offered to testify in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee. Good. We should hear from Judge Kavanaugh and from Professor Ford, under oath. And we need to know whether Senator Feinstein’s staff or the Washington Post found any corroborating evidence at all in the weeks when they had knowledge of Ford’s claims.

Of course, the memory challenges run both ways, but — at the same time — if a person is going to affirmatively accuse another person of misconduct, the accuser bears at least some burden of proof (even if the court of public opinion isn’t a court of law). In my previous piece about the allegations against Kavanaugh, I argued that the right question to ask is whether it’s more likely than not that the accusations are true. And if there isn’t any corroboration or external evidence outside of Christine Ford’s three-decades-old recollections, that’s simply not sufficient basis for derailing the nomination of an outstanding jurist — no matter how fiercely they’re believed.
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It all sounds reasonable and true.

 

Woman Gets Five Years For Ten Fraudulent Rape Allegations   [ 3 October 2022 ]
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An Essex woman made 10 false rape claims against two men leading to 60 police investigations - which eventually found that the men were not in the area at the time.

Cathy Richardson, 35, from Westcliff, made a series of allegations against two men between January and May 2021, and has now been sentenced to more than five years in prison...........

As officers progressed their enquiries into Richardson's claims, they found that CCTV, phone data, and information from automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) cameras showed the alleged attacker was not in the area at the time Richardson alleged the assaults to have taken place. 
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The actual charge was Perverting The Course Of Justice. The Mail is censoring comments even though she isn't black. The readers do not approve of her.

 

Lizard DNA Tests As Half Jew & Half Asian  [ 22 February 2023 ]
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A man and his wife decided to test the accuracy of 23andMe's at-home DNA testing kit by sending in a saliva sample collected from their pet lizard. What they found is that the whole thing is a sham.

In the following video, the man explains how after three months of waiting, he received anomalous results suggesting that his pet lizard is 48 percent West Asian and 51 percent Ashkenazi Jewish. 23andMe also sent him a report explaining the lizard’s history and background, including what he supposedly likes to eat........

Rumor Mill News, reporting on the results, noted the irony of the lizard basically testing positive for “serpent seed” DNA, seeing as how infamous globalist “lizard people” like George Soros and Lord Rothschild are of Ashkenazi Jewish origin.........

23andMe was co-founded, it is important to note, by lizard person Susan Wojcicki [ Yes, she's a Jew - Editor ], who currently holds the title of CEO over at YouTube. YouTube, as you probably know, is owned by Google, which is arguably the evilest corporation in the world.
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Oh well, just give up on DNA.