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2nd November 2019, 01:13 AM | #3881 |
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In a thread titled "Who Killed Meredith Kercher?", the answer is obvious. Rudy Guede and no one else. |
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In a thread titled "Who Killed Meredith Kercher?", the answer is obvious. Rudy Guede and no one else. |
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2nd November 2019, 03:59 AM | #3885 |
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1) What kind of "intensive advertising in the media" was undertaken by the Knox family? Evidence please, Vixen. 2) Stop trying to move the goalposts once again, Vixen. YOU claimed that the Knox family embarked on a "$2 million PR campaign", and you said you had the evidence to support it. Face it: both of those things are lies, aren't they Vixen? |
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2nd November 2019, 05:54 AM | #3888 |
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The Machine is preparing an article about this very topic so I am not going to queer his pitch.
However, the report is in the public domain for all to read and here is the PCR graph again. |
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2nd November 2019, 06:03 AM | #3889 |
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DNA on the bra clasp
With respect to the analysis of mixed DNA profiles, a good illustration of the problem of a suspect-centered approach was given at a pro-guilt website by someone going by the name Maundy Gregory. He showed that you could find some unexplained peaks from the bra clasp DNA that aligned with Amanda Knox's profile, but you could also find more peaks that aligned with Casey Anthony's profile. IMO this is a good illustration of why suspect-centered DNA analysis is not the correct method.
Here is another way of looking at the problem of any possible extra peaks on the bra clasp profile from autosomal (standard) DNA testing. The Y-chromosomal (from males only) DNA profile was not easily accessible until the Conti-Vecchioti report, which was well after 2008. But from that profile, we know that other men contributed to the Y-chromosomal DNA profile. Therefore, if we have unexplained peaks in the autosomal profile, it is parsimonious to assume that the same individuals who contributed to the Y-chromosomal profile also contributed to the autosomal profile. By the way, YSTR DNA testing is what produces Y-chromosomal profiles. |
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2nd November 2019, 06:06 AM | #3890 |
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To quote LJ.... So what you're saying is: no, you cannot supply the evidence to support your claim. Right?
But no worries. Some expert titled "The Machine" is on it. At least real DNA experts put their names to things. Speaking of which, please name one, just one real Forensic-DNA expert who supports either Stefanoni's work or "the Machine". |
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2nd November 2019, 06:30 AM | #3892 |
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Absolutely classic. And not at all remarkable by this point. Do let us know when you've "found it", won't you*? * I mean, you won't ever find reliable, credible evidence of the Knox family engaging in a "$2 million PR campaign" - because the very claim of this "$2 million PR campaign" is a lie, invented by pro-guilt agitators. So likewise, the claim that there exists (credible, reliable) evidence of the "$2 million PR campaign" is also a lie. |
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Poor logic by 'Maundy Gregory'. Casey Anthony's DNA might only fit slightly because she shares the same haplotype as Knox or is an unknowing third or fourth cousin. Likewise, were you to impose dad, Franscesco Sollecito in place of his son, there would be some suspicious allele matches. Why? Because Raff will have inherited half his genes from his father and the Y-haplotype is handed down father to son. Thus results show on a broad level, the DNA left on the bra clasp could be any male closely related to Raff. These odds would have been quite low maybe 3,000/1. However, the second YSTR test matches Raff exactly (17-alleles) and can be no-one other, except on a 3bn to one against probability he has an identical twin somewhere.
Simply playing around with the rules of logic and semantics is a waste of everybody's time, even it it is fun for pro-knoxers to try to introduce chaos and entropy. |
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LMAO This post, and many, many others before it, demonstrate your dreadful lack of understanding of DNA science and DNA forensic profiling. Suffice it to say that your "take" on this is entirely wrong..... (First off, for example, you've totally misunderstood what Maundy Gregory's point was. It was nothing to do with Casey Anthony sharing the same locus peaks with Knox. It was everything to do with Anthony's DNA loci being potentially represented (at a >75% level) among the many small peaks on the chart of the sample. Maundy Gregory was pointing out that you can make virtually anyone's DNA "match" that kind of sample chart - with its multiple peaks that are probably no more than noise in many instances. You can make a (incorrect and scientifically-invalid) "match" to Knox; and you can make a (similarly incorrect and scientifically-invalid) "match" to Casey Anthony. I don't doubt that a "match" for you or me could probably also be made to that sample chart......) |
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No you can't. Think of a five number lottery ticket from 1 to 50. The odds of any sequence being picked by the jackpot machine will be 50^5. Conventionally, it is said your chance of winning the jackpot (finding all five number correctly, is >14m to 1 against.
Now consider a string of alleles. The chances of 17alleles matching seventeen in the correct sequence, is, as Professor Novelli calculated - and no-one disputes it - >3BILLION to one against. The guy Maundy Gregory is just having fun and talking untested bollocks. He did not study Casey Anthony's genes. More fool you for being so gullible. ETA Over 40% of females in the west have haplotype H so no doubt this is where Knox and Casey Anthony match. But wait! There is more to DNA sequencing that 'finding the haplotype'. It means matching a whole series of loci to a highly significant level of at least 10. |
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<fx: head in hands> Maundy Gregory knows the position of Anthony's loci. They're in the public domain. He doesn't need to have "(studied) Casey Anthony's genes". Your lottery "analogy" is anything but an appropriate analogy. You don't understand DNA science properly. And once again (how is this failing to get through to you??), it's not that Anthony's and Knox's DNA profiles are "matching" in any way. It's that among the mountain range of small peaks on the output chart of the bra clasp hook, it's possible to find "peaks" which match Anthony's DNA profile, just as it's possible to find "peaks" which match Knox's profile. They're not the same peaks for both people though, Vixen. <fx: head buried even deeper in hands> |
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Indeed. And I'm equally certain that it will be a scientifically literate "article", displaying exacting, dispassionate, objective analysis. With the total absence of confirmation bias, begging the question, and other logical fallacies. Furthermore, I have the same high level of certitude that "The Machine" will come to his conclusions entirely objectively and with a total absence of a priori "reasoning" or any other preconceptions. I for one cannot wait! |
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finding what one wants to find
A small portion of Professor Vecchiotti's testimony as reported by Nina Burleigh here.
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That'll explain why he's (Harry Rag) gone a bit quiet on YouTube, which is his favourite haunt. He's got me vexed with one of his more recent comments though:
"If Meredith was your daughter, you would have a completely different opinion about Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito's numerous lies. You wouldn't be able to hand wave them away." Hmmm! I don't know what he's trying to tell me but he's previously denied being a relative of Meredith. Hoots |
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Not quite. Despite your refusal to do more than finally present the Vinci report (in Italian and not searchable or translatable by Chrome or c & p) I typed the relevant parts into a translation program. Unsurprisingly, your claim was false. Vinci found some DNA that was compatible with Knox just as it would be compatible with other people.
But it is his conclusion regarding that DNA that puts the lie to your claim:
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In other words, Vixen, Vinci did NOT find Knox's DNA on the bra clasp. Will you now stop claiming he did? I wonder of The Machine will bother to include Vinci's conclusion in his hit job...er...'article'. |
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