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How the FBI Crime Lab Promotes and Defends Junk Science

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Pattern Matching

This is the assistant general counsil of the fbi, crime lamb jim agar. This a blistic a memo that comes out in december of last year. So again, this is a form of pattern matching. This is, they take the gun that the suspect owned, or they can tie to the suspect, they fire it in a alab and then they look at the markings on on the bullet. Then they claim that they can then look at the marks on the bullet found on the crime scene or found in the victim, and tell you whether they were fired from the same gun. But scientists have actually started looking at thisa and trying to determine whether or not you

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