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On TV crime shows like “CSI,” “NCIS” and “Law & Order,” science gets the bad guys………In real life, “science” often ensnares the innocent.
Former NYPD Detective Harry Houck gets annoyed when TV shows make forensic science look infallible.
“You watch a detective get down and look at a body (and say), ‘He’s been dead for three hours now. … (H)e ate dinner four hours ago,'” scoffs Houck. “I can’t do that.”
On TV, experts identify killers by their bite marks. In real life, experts claim they can do that.