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[asimplechord]

JESUS FUCKING CHRIST, WHO CHECKS THE SCIENCE ON CSI: NEW YORK?

Thallium 201? Has a half life measured in HOURS. Checking a corpse years old? You'd detect zero Tl-201. (Although you could probably detect plenty of mercury, which is the product of the decay.)

Also? Thallium is toxic as shit, so it's likely that someone would die of thallium poisoning outright before they ever died of radiation poisoning.

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[galaxyaway.livejournal.com]

CSI is never accurate, tbh. But I love the shows nonetheless. It's like trying to get medical advice from House.

[asimplechord.livejournal.com]

I laugh at House, because most of my medical knowledge is cursory at best, so most of the mistakes they make go over my head. Only once have I yelled at the TV screen over a diagnosis he made, and that was because it was specifically related to my field of interest, and I was all, NONONO never happen!

[whispers-of-me.livejournal.com]

I usually end up critiquing the way they work crime scenes too ~ until I get so frustrated at the inaccuracies that I switch it over to cartoons or something else mind numbing. GAH, they are *supposed* to have someone with some type of intelligence to give professional advice to....apparently the professional advice is not heeded or not the right type of profession!

Glad to know I am not the only one who gripes when the science is wrong!

[asimplechord.livejournal.com]

I normally don't even watch shows like CSI because the fake science irks me so much, but we were flipping channels and saw it just as they starting talking about thallium radioactivity, and since MrIris actually keeps thallium in his lab for various reasons, we both had this head-scratching WTH? moment.

[enchanted-jae.livejournal.com]

Morons! How could anyone be so stupid?!

*has no real clue, either*

[asimplechord.livejournal.com]

I should just suspend all disbelief when I turn the TV on, shouldn't I? :)