I wonder: if Dr Vass is engaging in 'junk science' (as RH purports,) why then would the FBI back and finance this? What am I missing here? While I don't agree with RH, I respect that he conceded that Valhall is of the opinion that Dr Vass' work IS peer reviewed. We shall see.
I enjoy RH's sense of humor immensely! I like his stick, sting and move brand of humor.
However, his assertion that the work by Dr. Vass and his compounds had not been peer reviewed made me sit up and take notice. What?? I read on, hoping for evidence of this, a quote from Dr. Vass, something...
Oddly, I found no evidence in his blog. Perhaps he knows something I don't.
Years ago, I audited Dr. Bass's class on Forensic Anthropology, and came away with a healthy respect for this corner of the scientific world, but I digress..
Of course the work done by Dr. Vass has been peer reviewed. The very idea that his work on detectable compounds has not been reviewed by his peers is laughable.
See American Academy of Forensic Science 2002
Colorado
page 205
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdo...852CC99?doi=10.1.1.110.7203&rep=rep1&type=pdf
Postmortem Interval Decomposition Chemistry of Human Remains:
A New Methodology For Determining the Postmortem Interval
States this research project is to present to the forensic community a novel and accurate methodology of determining the postmortem interval.
It also states in this research project, he used 18 subjects.
Here's another, where he lists several compounds found. Not so secret...
http://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/grants/231197.pdf
Anyway, I do love RH's sense of humor.