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ChadTower:

I hear good things about House but I need another show to watch like I need another 10lbs.   ;D

Jdurg:

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--- Quote from: Jdurg on December 25, 2007, 06:58:27 pm ---Here's a sad dose of reality;  That show is so full of ---Cleveland steamer--- with regards to the science and everything they do.  I have my B.S. in Forensic Chemistry and it is not as "easy" and "simple" as they make it look.  In reality, the field is fairly straightforward and boring.  It's not a glamorous, dramatic, suspense filled career where each thing you do makes or breaks a case. 

The basics of what they talk about do hold some water, but if a real forensic lab followed the procedures they used nobody would ever be convicted.  The fact of the matter is, you still need to obtain the evidence as quickly as possible and as cleanly as possible.  You can't just go to a crimescene two days later, pick up a Frito that is laying on the ground and suddenly find out how the crime was comitted and by whom. 

The show is good for entertainment, but to say that you're able to learn something from it is like saying that you can be a solid lawyer because you watched the Law and Order series.   ;D

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What's so full of ---Cleveland steamer--- about about it? They find small traces of evidence and use forensic technology and testing to find the person who left that trace behind, or the person most likely to have left it behind. Getting DNA from family and friends or people the person knows is just another way to test and to find a person who maybe would have committed a crime. I know this process is not done as quick as it seems on the show and many weeks/months/years go by and the show makes this stuff seem more interesting than it really is to the average person, but it still is interesting to me either way.

You can't just disregard what they say just because it's a TV show and say it's all fake when it's not.

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My COMPLETE apologies.  I had Forensic Files confused with the CSI series of shows.  Forensic Files isn't bad at all.  CSI is the utter garbage.  Sorry about that.  I'll stand up and admit I was wrong.

Forensic Files is the good show.  They leave out the boring stuff such as chain of custody for samples, etc. etc. that would bore people to death, but the gist of the show is good.

I just get really pissed when I see CSI on TV because it gives such a false portrayal of forensic chemistry.  Ugggh...

danny_galaga:

--- Quote from: ChadTower on December 26, 2007, 10:35:24 am ---
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--- Quote from: billf on December 26, 2007, 12:27:25 am ---I personally can't stand any of the CSI brand shows.

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Neither can I.

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Cop shows/hospital shows are t3h suck.  My wife is an ER fanatic.  I can't even watch it.  I find no entertainment value in watching the worst moment of someone's life every thursday night even if it is fiction.  I just don't see how anyone who has ever been through something like that could find it entertaining.



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you're not going to tell me you don't like Kojak or Starsky & Hutch are you?

tommy:

--- Quote from: pinballjim on December 26, 2007, 11:57:45 am ---I hate those forensic shows because they convince people that that kind of evidence is rock solid and can't be disputed.

It's impossible to identify anyone from DNA samples... all you can do is eliminate other people.  Same goes for fingerprints.

Bunch of circumstantial BS and I think every forensic department in the country has been in a scandal where they've been caught massaging the evidence.


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What the hell are you talking about now? When you have a 1 in a billion chance of another person outside your family having the exact same or even half way close of a DNA sample as you do I think that's as solid as it gets.

Do you know anything about anything?

ChadTower:

--- Quote from: danny_galaga on December 27, 2007, 05:06:12 am ---you're not going to tell me you don't like Kojak or Starsky & Hutch are you?

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Never seen them.  They were way off the air before I was old enough to watch prime time tv.

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