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Mar 01, 2006 20:48

CSI GUILT TRIP ON TRICKS OF THE TRADE.

Actor Marg Helganberger feels guilty her show has taught criminals how to cover thier tracks. "I sometimes feel guilty about that whole thing. The show has always ben eduacational as well as entertaining"  she  said. "Were educating the public and sometimes educationg the criminals, I am sorry to say.
But the star who plays Catherine Willows in the show said that theyre was also a postitivbe effect, contact music reports. "We also educate the people who may have the misfortuene of actually being involved in some kind of criminal act becausen they know (when they are being atacked to pull out a hair by the "skin tag" so that criminalist can get that skin tag and get the DNA attached to it."

I am sorry but what? I have watched the odd episode of CSI, some with a qualified medical lab scientist and I have been appalled by how far the writers feel they can move from the truth. I have seen them zoom into a three dimensional model of DNA thought a light microscope, never minding the fact that you can't do that, that no method that is currently available gives you that go a picture of DNA, and that all the issues are computer generated.
 I don't really mind that much if CSI bends or brakes the truth , I don't watch it because I can't stand what they do the science but if someone wants so trashy cop drama it does have it moments. So feel free to watch it, but if you think it has any basis in reality, I am going to pretend I don't know you.
Maybe I am wrong maybe criminals are just that stupid but I think not, I am guessing your average criminal already knew about DNA testing and about security cameras, which is about as deep into CSI as you can go before things stop making sense(we need to reverse the polarity on the Norton flux).

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