• @Wrench
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    219 hours ago

    The whole gun planting take seems like conspiratory nonsense to me. And I’ll trust the forensic science on the striations.

    • @Machinist
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      613 hours ago

      I don’t have a source, but I’ve been hearing for a while now that there is a lot of pseudo science in matching barrels to bullets.

      Polygraphs ended up being pretty much complete bullshit and roadside drug tests are real bad about false positives.

      IDK, it’s basically a tool mark. I’ve looked at those under microscopes. They vary a whole lot when things are running well. I would think you could only really match something if there was a distinctive abnormal feature.

      • @Wrench
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        -517 hours ago

        Rofl. OK. So forensics is fake science now, too? Because it could implicate someone you’d rather see go free?

        How is this kind of mental gymnastics any different than the covid deniers.

        • @Baylahoo
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          1817 hours ago

          It’s famously subjective. My highschool taught it and showed how you could push any narrative as long as the evidence was gray. It’s almost always gray in these situations.

        • Pup Biru
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          1016 hours ago

          a lot of forensics is legitimately junk science that’s been disproven by much better science

        • @[email protected]
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          tacking the word “science” on to something doesn’t make it scientific. much of it is based off of wild assumptions and “common sense” that was never actually studied or confirmed through testing. its about as scientific as alchemy.

    • @[email protected]
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      718 hours ago

      It does seem weird to me that he would still have all the evidence on him in Middle-of-Nowhere PA, a couple days later, but I mostly just talk about that as a way to point out this is all still allegations

      • @Wrench
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        -117 hours ago

        Eh. He could have intended to use it again, or didn’t find an opportune time to ditch/destroy it. Or maybe he’s not the master People’s assassin that everyone wants him to be.