ashington -- The honeymoon is over between real-life crime scene investigators and the stars who play them in the immensely popular television show "CSI."Forensic scientists are now complaining about something they call the "CSI Effect," which is, according to Max Houck of West Virginia University, "the perception of near infallibility of forensic science after watching a few episodes of CSI."
Greg and I laugh about this all the time. There is NO way that any of the stuff on CSI is realistically possible. Just from the bureaucratic standpoint- they get search warrants WAY too quickly and I am sure they use evidence that would not normally be admissable (sp?) in court. Also CSI is a government agency and there is just no way the government is providing the money for the kinds of technology (realistic or not) they are using on the shows. The final unrealistic aspect of CSI: Miami is Detective Horatio Kane. No one uses cliches that often in their everyday speech.
It is interesting that this "CSI effect" is reaching the courtrooms. Our country
(including me) watches way too much TV.
Horatio Kane is da bomb.
Posted by: Greg at February 23, 2005 10:02 PM