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As was pointed out before, for those interested going into forensic sciences, consider first doing a more general science degree e.g. in chemistry, the various applicable fields of biology etc. and doing your degree work or a postgraduate degree in the forensics field. It will give you...

A while ago, Mark Benecke held a talk at the institute I worked at -ironically as part of the closing ceremony for a youth science program- where he showed us some of his "test objects" from the Body Farm ;) Though it was pretty strong stuff, I didn't see anyone run outside, what with the...

Well, I have to see. Having worked in molecular diagnosis, I have several applications running at the moment, some to companies which also do genetic fingerprinting. Depends on where I get the offer.

Re: Welcome to the Forensic Science Forum Well, for professional reasons, I like chemical and biological (DNA etc) analysis.

Re: Forensic Science Trivia Game @VManso: If you're still around, could you phrase this a bit more accurately? Do you mean chemical formulations, perchance? Because the ingredients of chemical formulas are usually letters and numbers or letters and connecting lines ;)

This is easy since a thread to that end already exists, it just hasn't been active for a while. Maybe Cat can make it sticky?

Hi, after making some posts in one or the other thread and probably getting Grissom&Sara-Fans mad at me, I figured I'd introduce myself ;) I am 34. Currently living in my native Germany, though I spent several years in the US before, which is where I warmed up to CSI. I am a chemist and a...

Well, as I said elsewhere, Grissom USED to remind me a lot of myself, not in looks, but in attitude, dedication to science etc. Just until they hooked him up with Sara.

I believe, though, that this is in part fallout from the "my expert is better than your expert" wars in the US Court System where oratory skills are sometimes more relevant than scientific merit. Here in Germany, we have court-appointed sworn experts. Since the expert is court-appointed, he is...

Re: what is your favourite Csi episode and favourite charact Well, I always would have said Grissom, quite simply because I thought that he and I had a lot in common. But his getting together with Sara just makes me doubt that. Personally, I would question how such a relationship would affect...

An internationally renowned forensics expert I attended a talk of: http://www.benecke.com/ He actually is a forensic entomologist like Grissom and happens to have worked for the Manhattan medical examiner's office

Note that she doesn't say the science is consistently inaccurate, she says that "if the science is inaccurate, it interferes with my viewing" Personally, from what I heard from a couple of forensics researchers, they're more bothered by the budget of the CSI departments seemingly resembling...