Quote from: K-Dog on Feb 07, 2026, 10:01 PMQuoteWhat conspiracy accounts for someone of high moral fiber and expectations as well as experience deciding to risk it all?
I can't believe this is serious.
Well, I haven't found any evidence that the medical examiner was in on a conspiracy. Have you? The only part of your quote that matters is:
"forensic specialists note they appear more frequently in strangulation homicides"
Being one of those experts that chips in, in my field of expertise, I am quite willing to allow another most certainly certified expert venture their official opinion and in order to contradict it, you need more than "more frequently".
Quote from: K-DogWhen I was 12 years old I believed stuff like that too.
Not sure what "like that too?" is referring to. That accredited experts know more about their topic than amateur hour folks?
The three of us here are all smart guys. None of us are forensic pathologists. I don't argue with you about EE issues, no one here is qualified to argue with me about the geosciences, and I don't tend to argue with RE about genetics and microbiology stuff.
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So....what does another forensic pathologist say? "Appear more frequently" isn't even a reasonable statistic expression for anyone educated on calculating probabilities...which is where experts come in to make the call. One fully capable professional did that. So....how have you discredited HER or involved HER in your conspiracy angle?
And I wasn't 12 when I learned how to do statistical investigations, so you must have been quite precocious as a youngster. I was took busy learning to feed my family back at that age by hunting and trapping and whatnot. World class statistical analysis and stochastic modeling didn't happen until after I was out of college, learned it as a lark.