ISLAMIC SCIENCE: Pregnant Pakistani woman had nail hammered into her head to ‘guarantee’ birth to baby boy
A pregnant Pakistani woman with three daughters had a nail hammered into her head by a faith healer who said it would guarantee she gave birth to a boy. The woman’s husband allegedly threatened to leave her if she had another girl.
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Exploitative faith healers, whose practices are rooted in mystic Sufi lore, proliferate across Muslim-majority Pakistan, where a son is believed to offer better financial security to parents than daughters.
The woman arrived at a hospital in the northwestern city of Peshawar after trying to extract the nail herself with pliers, doctor Haider Khan told AFP. “She was fully conscious, but was in immense pain,” said Khan, who removed the spike. An X-ray showed the five-centimeter (two-inch) nail had pierced the top of the woman’s forehead but missed her brain. Khan said a hammer or other heavy object was used to knock it in.
The woman initially told hospital staff she had hammered the nail into her head herself on the advice of the faith healer, before later saying he had carried out the act. Peshawar police are trying to track down the woman in order to question her. “We have collected the CCTV footage from the hospital and hope to reach the woman soon,” city police chief Abbas Ahsan told AFP.
As it turns out, this woman is pregnant with another girl.
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Islamic science sounds like Fauci is giving them medical advice. Third world ignoramuses that are typical of what has infested MSP, Murfreesboro, New Jersey, Ft. McCoy, Wisconsin et al. with the assistance of both parties in D.C.
she needed that healer like she needed a hole in her head...
and all we hear is the war on men and boys.....
Trust the Science./s:
It’s not junk science, it’s just junk.
https://booksbikesboomsticks.blogspot.com/2022/02/its-not-junk-science-its-just-junk.html
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If you’ve been shooting for a while, you probably remember when your new handgun came with a fired case in a little manila envelope... or maybe a sticker on the side of the box that said “NOT FOR SALE IN NY OR MD”. Both New York and Maryland set up programs to keep spent casings on file of every handgun sold, with the intention of using the magic of “ballistic fingerprinting” to match spent cases found at crime scenes to specific guns.
Both states ended their programs, the Empire State in 2012 and the Old Line State in 2015, because they were expensive flops that didn’t solve anything, and for numerous reasons.
[T]he system Maryland bought created images so imprecise that when an investigator submitted a crime scene casing, the database software would sometimes spit out hundreds of matches. The state sued the manufacturer in 2009 for $1.9 million, settling three years later for $390,000.
The bigger problem is that “ballistic fingerprinting”, like many other forensic techniques, relies on pattern matching and is highly subjective, despite being presented to juries as “science”.
Here’s Radley Balko, writing at The Daily Beast on the other kind of “ballistic fingerprinting”, whereby the claim is made that a fired projectile can be conclusively matched to a specific firearm:
Alicia Carriquiry is director at the Center for Statistics and Applications in Forensic Evidence at Iowa State. She and her team have been assembling a database of the ballistics marks left on bullets. Their research thus far has indicated there’s little support for the claim that every gun leaves unique marks on the bullets it fires—or least not in a way that’s useful for distinguishing one gun from another.
Controlled studies have also shown that the entire field of forensic firearms analysis is inherently subjective. The Houston Forensic Science Center is one of the few crime labs in the country to take a strictly scientific approach to forensics. Director Peter Stout regularly administers blind proficiency tests to his analysts. He first gave his ballistics analysts “sensitivity tests,” in which they were asked to determine whether two bullets were fired by the same gun. The analysts reached the correct conclusion about 76 percent of the time—leaving a lot of room for reasonable doubt.
Stout also gave his analysts “specificity tests,” in which they were asked to determine whether two bullets were fired by different guns. Here, the success rate dipped to 34 percent.
Carriquiry points to another recent sensitivity study—funded by the FBI itself—in which the analysts’ success rate was just 48 percent. “A dispassionate observer would say that they would have made fewer mistakes if they had flipped a coin,” Carriquiry says. “Given that astonishingly low accuracy, it seems pure hubris to be recommending to examiners to ‘push back.’”
(Archive Link)
Jurors have watched plenty of police procedurals on TV and think that projectile matching is some precise science when in fact going much beyond “Well, the octagonal polygonal rifling tells me this .45 caliber bullet was likely fired from a Glock” is educated guesswork.
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How bad science and bad television can influence legal proceedings IMO. Many of the shows about crimes committed, like The First 48, have cases where they say the casings prove it came from defendants Shadow Systems MR920, and passing this off as “science”. Reality is it is an educated guess that as useful as polygraphs. Sounds like the current Covid shots nonsense they are pushing.