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Re: ISFI 2012 Presentation Invitation
Posted by:
dcarpenter (IP Logged)
Date: August 16, 2012 04:41PM
See below ...
PMK140 Wrote:
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> 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.
Thank you for taking the time to clear this up.
>
> It will be presented by one of you at ISFI 2012 in
> place of the much anticipated Origin by Toxicology
> paper.
The topic is not "Origin by Toxicology", but use of toxilogical data in fire investigation. You seem to frequently use "straw men" to bolster your arguments.
>
> 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.
I believe you were present at the presentation in 2006 at ISFI, so why would you be "eagerly awaiting?"
If memory serves me correctly, the discussion panel we were asked to attend was prior to our presentation by a few days. So any discussion that would have been heard by attendees would not have been after hearing the presentation. It was my understanding that this discussion was to be used to generate interest in subsequent serial presentations.
I do not remeber you being in the audience at our presentation at IAAI.
>
> It seems that ill-luck has plagued your
> participation at Professional Fire Investigation
> forums discussions on the importantly
> controversial topic.
So far only one ...
>
> 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.
Your welcome to your opinions, but how do you get multiple peer-review journal articles on the same methodology. One of the tests of accpetnance is that it has not been published somewhere else. You know all this...the rest is pretty transparent.
Douglas J. Carpenter, MScFPE, CFEI, PE, FSFPE
Vice President & Principal Engineer
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