Forensic Science: Not As Seen On TV

Why do TV shows have science consultants when they clearly don’t listen to what their consultants tell them? I have often wondered this. Generally while watching forensics procedurals. I still haven’t recovered from that episode of Bones where Dr. Jack Hodgins, in shocking defiance of sterile protocol, sorts through a fecal sample and then grabs a lamp with his dirty glove. GAH! The one that really gets me, though, is “zoom and enhance,” a ubiquitous trope so blatantly impossible that every seventh grader in every class I’ve ever visited knows it could never happen. As does anyone who’s tapped on a cell […]

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