
16: No Such Thing As A Ghost In Poland
No Such Thing As A Fish
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The Rise and Fall of Fingerprinting
In France and Australia they need 12 identical points to make sense of a fingerprint, whereas in Italy they need 16. In America, it just varies from state to state of how many... They're just like, he's got fingers. But fingerprinting somehow has made it through. Back in the 1970s, there was a lady called Dr Louise Robbins who declared herself to be the world's only footprint identification experts. She claimed that she could not only identify the shoes, but the person who had been wearing the shoes as well. After her death, a panel of 135 forensic experts reviewed her work and realized that it was just absolute nonsense.
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