“You can’t turn off policing because you’re concerned that someone may come to the wrong conclusion,” said David Mittelman, the founder of Othram, a private forensic lab. Othram provided genetic genealogy analysis that was used in solving about a dozen newborn Baby Doe cases.
perching_aix · 5h ago
I find it a bit disturbing how the article spends quite a number of words on how rapid-fire conclusions from DNA evidence can go terribly wrong in several different ways, and yet the author decided to title the article "A DNA Technique Is Finding Women Who Left Their Babies for Dead".
bookofjoe · 5h ago
Authors DO NOT title their articles at the New York Times; others do.
perching_aix · 5h ago
I suppose that makes it ever so slightly less disturbing, but more frustrating.
“You can’t turn off policing because you’re concerned that someone may come to the wrong conclusion,” said David Mittelman, the founder of Othram, a private forensic lab. Othram provided genetic genealogy analysis that was used in solving about a dozen newborn Baby Doe cases.