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Texas Vulture Study Upends Forensics | Fox News: 'Experienced investigators would normally have interpreted the absence of flesh and the condition of the bones as evidence that the woman had been dead for six months, possibly even a year or more. Now a study of vultures at Texas State University is calling into question many of the benchmarks detectives have long relied on.'
The actual time was 5 weeks so "expert knowledge" was at least 5 times too long! Once again, we need to consider the confidence level of the "expert knowledge" that we have -- especially when it could affect other people's lives!
'Scientists set up a motion-sensing camera that captured the vultures jumping up and down on the woman's body, breaking some of her ribs, which investigators could also misinterpret as trauma suffered during a beating.'
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