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To further quote from the article: "The dataset of death certificates indicated that forensic pathologists were more likely to rule "homicide" rather than "accident" for deaths of Black children relative to White children." In more than 75% of the death certificates reviewed, the manner of death (accident vs homicide) was certified by lay coroners with law enforcement backgrounds - not by forensic pathologists! SECOND PRONG Dror et al somehow unofficially obtained the email addresses of NAME members and sent a survey to 713 American Board of Pathology-certified pathologists (uncertain if all of them were forensic pathologists) by private email. [Extracted from the article]

Forensic pathologists are commonly tasked with identifying human remains. Although DNA analysis remains the gold standard in identification, time and cost make it particularly prohibitive. Radiological examination, more specifically analog imaging, is more cost‐effective and has been widely used in the medical examiner setting as a means of identification. In the United States, CT imaging is a fairly new imaging modality in the forensic setting, but in more recent years, offices are acquiring CT scans or collaborating with local hospitals to utilize the technology. To broaden the spectrum of potential identifying characteristics, we collected 20 cases with antemortem and postmortem CT images. The results were qualitatively assessed by a forensic pathologist and a nonmedically trained intern, and all cases were correctly identified. This study demonstrates that identification of human remains using visual comparison could be performed with ease by a forensic pathologist with limited CT experience. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]