Podcast: Halina Šimková on whether the perfect crime exists
DNA is a ubiquitous molecule that, along with our cells, saliva, skin and everything else, is scattered around the world. All over the world. It remains even in places you have never been. What happens when DNA turns up at the scene of a crime?
The guest on our partner podcast Brain We Are is the forensic geneticist Halina Šimková, who in 2016 won the Neuron Award for the best science video — The Art of Forensic Genetics.
She reveals how genetics helps in the hunt for criminals, and much more! We talk about errors of judgement and what impact they have on the justice system, for instance. What is it that the brain "does not grasp"? What is Bayesian inference and why does it affect our everyday lives? What influence does technology have on the brain?
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