tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post365697483429213761..comments2024-03-25T20:06:39.794-05:00Comments on Grits for Breakfast: New forensic commissioners appointed, but agency jurisdiction too limitedGritsforbreakfasthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10152152869466958902noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-73580718568841542872012-03-06T22:47:05.864-06:002012-03-06T22:47:05.864-06:00Well looks like Dr. Peerwani is now finding new av...Well looks like Dr. Peerwani is now finding new avenues to mint more dollars from Uncle Sam -- this time its funding for a charter school<br />http://www.star-telegram.com/2012/03/04/3783174/county-medical-examiner-among.htmlAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-3330861347608787552011-11-05T09:13:57.744-05:002011-11-05T09:13:57.744-05:00I am mystified at what 8:01 is trying to get at. ...I am mystified at what 8:01 is trying to get at. Clearly, Peerwani is a competent forensic medical examiner. He is not a forensic scientist, but he manages an organization that includes forensic laboratory services and therefore has a professional understanding of those disciplines. For his actions on the commission to date, he is clearly a better choice to head the commission that any lawyer would be. For goodness sake, the commission is supposed to evaluate issues of science. Why are there lawyers on the commission at all.<br /><br />My biggest beef with the commission has to do with the complaint process. Anonymous complaints ought not to be allowed, and it is absolutely goofy that the rules of the commission would permit and even encourage these sorts of complaints. This is not a reasonable due-process approach. To set in motion a complex investigative process without considering the credibility of the individual making the complaint is goofy.<br /><br />For instance, everyone knows of the problems and injustices created by Fred Zain and Joyce Gilcrist and others of their ilk. Those are exactly the sort of people that you would have hoped would have been identified early on as problem employees, and then gotten rid of in a way that would have prevented them from being hired by another laboratory. <br /><br />But today, if a laboratory were to identify someone like Zain or Gilcrist - someone obviously incompetent - and then do the right thing and get rid of him, then all that ex-employee would need to do would be to file an anonymous complaint with the TFSC, and then sit back and watch everyone jump through hoop after hoop after hoop. And all because of the anonymous nature of the complaint, when a cursory evaluation of competency and background of the complainant would have easily allowed the complaint to be dismissed at an early stage.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-25932609102188225922011-11-02T20:01:54.384-05:002011-11-02T20:01:54.384-05:00Honestly, are you serious, John Bradley is where w...Honestly, are you serious, John Bradley is where we set the bar?<br />I know you can do better than that. <br /><br />Have you followed Peerwani and his contracts with Tarrant county at all? <br /><br />To call him a medical examiner is a lie. His whole operation is a conflict of interest. It's pretty clear in his rulings of who he works for.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-14117719001878173352011-11-02T13:13:13.325-05:002011-11-02T13:13:13.325-05:00One area that badly needs to be added to the FSC&#...One area that badly needs to be added to the FSC's job description is junk science mental health experts - Dr. Quijano, Dr. Coons et al. have made lots of $$$ over the years peddling their unfounded opinions, especially in death cases but in non-capital cases also. It's well past time for their work to be scrutinized by actual scientists.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-86691164371194660802011-11-02T06:00:13.209-05:002011-11-02T06:00:13.209-05:008:32, what are you talking about? Be specific. Wha...8:32, what are you talking about? Be specific. What would you have had him do differently on the FSC? He's a night and day difference from John Bradley.Gritsforbreakfasthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10152152869466958902noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-53985314941260820122011-11-01T20:32:01.227-05:002011-11-01T20:32:01.227-05:00Dr. Peerwani didn't make his money bucking the...Dr. Peerwani didn't make his money bucking the system, far from it.<br />He was given a platform and a forum to do the right thing and he shrunk from it. Par for the course for the good doctor.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-50995878965134712062011-11-01T18:02:21.865-05:002011-11-01T18:02:21.865-05:00Your suggestions on the length of term and expansi...Your suggestions on the length of term and expansion of focus for the FSC make a lot of sense. Texas has held on to this hatred of government (at least in statute, not in practice) for far too long.A Texas POhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05675916968621862855noreply@blogger.com