Doug,
As you know, as of today your lost abstract on "FORENSIC INVESTIGATION TECHNIQUES FOR INSPECTING ELECTRICAL CONDUCTORS INVOLVED IN FIRES" has been resent by Jaimie and is now in the hands of the ISFI staff. Apparently there was a typo in the original e-mail address to which it was sent by one of your staff and it was never received by ISFI.
It will be presented by one of you at ISFI 2012 in place of the much anticipated Origin by Toxicology paper.
I was eagerly awaiting the chance to see and hear you explain and defend your theory in front of a group of your professional fire investigation peers. This was especially true because of the scheduling conflict that prevented your and Jaimie's attendance and participation in the discussion panel after your much touted presentation in Dover at the IAAI AGM.
It seems that ill-luck has plagued your participation at Professional Fire Investigation forums discussions on the importantly controversial topic.
It certainly appears to me that your novel methodology will never be able to pass the “general widely accepted” hurdle of a Daubert challenge by simply making presentations yourselves, or even by a single peer-reviewed article in Fire Technology (which of course is not a two-way discussion or open challenge). It seems to me that Auger Spectroscopy to identify electrical beads as causing a fire was also published in Fire Technology.
Pat Kennedy, CFEI, CFPS, MIFireE
Fire and Explosion Analyst
Sarasota, Florida
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