Goff ?
Goff doesn’t believe in anecdotal information. He likes to try out everything himself. In chapter 8 entitled “Air, fire and water”, he explains this in a remarkable case. The usual belief among the forensic entomologists was that the insects started colonizing a burned corpse later than a normal one. Goff didn’t accept this information on the face of it. He went ahead, burnt a pig, and actually studied the insect populations. He found that insects actually start colonizing the carcass a day earlier in burnt corpses (in dry conditions), and as much as four days earlier in rain forests! The most astounding part of his experiment was that in one case, flies alighted on the carcass even when other parts were burning! So interesting was this experiment that it was even filmed by a reporter for the New York Times Video News International.