Every­one has a blog it seems.  Why add a new to the ever increas­ingly clut­tered land­scape of the inter­net.  In other words:  “Why will this blog mat­ter to you?”

The rea­son I started this blog was sim­ple.  Spread­ing the good word of good foren­sic sci­ence and spread­ing the word of “bad” foren­sic sci­ence.  What I mean by “bad” foren­sic sci­ence is really the use of tra­di­tional meth­ods that have not been suf­fi­ciently stud­ied and ver­i­fied in such a way that any rea­son­able cre­den­tialed and well-educated sci­en­tist would come to the con­clu­sion that some “experts” espouse.

With this blog, we will have guest writ­ers from time-to-time from the sci­en­tific and legal field.

Finally, and most impor­tantly, this blog will sep­a­rate in a clearly delin­eated man­ner empir­i­cal peer-reviewed facts and the­o­ries for edi­to­ri­als and opin­ions.  All mat­ters that are pre­sented as empir­i­cal peer-reviewed facts or the­o­ries will be clearly sourced so that it can be checked.  Edi­to­ri­als or opin­ions will be high­lighted in such a way so as to not con­fuse the two.

So let us begin…