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21 May, 4 tweets, 3 min read
This story from @liammannix about the quashing of debate within forensic science is one of the most wild things I've ever read ping @RetractionWatch theage.com.au/national/victo…
We often discuss academic "silencing" as a sort of nasty attack on people's credentials, but rarely does that include police detectives investigating people for publishing scientific articles 👀👀👀
And while I have absolutely no expertise in paediatric forensics, I've read Dr. Brook's piece which while retracted is still available as a preprint, and it does not seem like a wild and unscientific document researchgate.net/profile/C-Broo…
Needless to say - Dr. Brook could be totally wrong. He is also not an expert in paediatric forensics

But as I said, I've read his piece, and followed the references. It's not a wild or unsupported theory as far as I can tell 🤷‍♂️

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