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Tue 08 Aug 2009Forensics? We really don't have a clue
We asked a DNA expert to pass judgment on a new ‘CSI’ exhibition, and discovered that forensic science isn’t as simple – or as cool – as it looks on telly
IT’S THANKS to CSIthat millions of us fancy ourselves as forensics experts. DNA profiling, blood spatter patterns, latent prints – who couldn’t throw a bit of forensic banter into a conversation and, after nine years of the mega-hit TV series, there can’t be many viewers who wouldn’t be quietly confident of nabbing the baddie if let loose on a crime scene.
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