August 2025

Thinking in Columns, Not Tunnels: How ACH Could Sharpen Forensic Science*

Another in a series on FORINT (Forensic Intelligence)

Aug 14 • 

Max Houck

July 2025

New study: State medical examiners wrongly excused homicides committed by Maryland police officers

After the Derek Chauvin trial, the state ordered an audit of autopsies done on people who had died in police custody. The results are disturbing.

Published on The Watch • Jul 22

“We’re Gonna Need a Bigger Lab”

Jaws as a Metaphor for Forensic Science* Dysfunction With A Side of Trivia

Jul 11 • 

Max Houck

Some of these things are not like the others: Gaps in codes of ethics

"Ethics are more important than laws." Wynton Marsalis

Jul 2 • 

Max Houck

June 2025

The Westminster Commission on Forensic Science

A cross-post with Forensic Science(*) in England and Wales

Jun 10 • 

Max Houck

May 2025

The Collapse of 23andMe and the Crumbling Foundation of Consumer Genomics

With implications for forensic science*

May 30 • 

Max Houck

Statistical Dreams and Material Limits

What We Can—and Can’t—Say in Forensic Science*

May 11 • 

Max Houck

April 2025

The Juridictional Problem in Forensic Science*

The Multiverse has nothing on forensic science*

Apr 17 • 

Max Houck

Police and their Hostility to non-DNA Fields of Forensic Evidence

A Substack shout-out

Apr 6 • 

Max Houck

March 2025

Is it worth it?

Returns on investments (ROIs) in forensic science*

Mar 28 • 

Max Houck