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A Lab Test That Experts Liken to a Witch Trial Is Helping Send Women to Prison for Murder The “lung float” test claims to help determine if a baby was born alive or dead, but many medical examiners say it’s too unreliable. Yet it is still being used to bring murder charges — and get convictions.
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Woke Patriotic Cats
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Sick
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SeaWolf
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Anxiously awaiting the @newyorktimes.bsky.social article that will both sides this test in order to remain objectively neutral.
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Kim
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Are we going backwards in time?
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Susan Kiddie 🍉
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Just what we need: more junk science leading to wrongful convictions. Cue the decades fighting for exoneratation, many of which never come.
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RavenMae
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I took forensic courses in college in the 90s. My professors knew then that the lung float test was too flawed to be worth much. Jesus.
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Coltrane, the dog
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I mean, we have microscopes now?
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