Cold Case Review of Sophie Tuscan du Plantier murder to proceed

Those aren't numerical outputs in the first screenshots, they are STRs. I never said they were the same profile either. I have no problem with anyone saying things in laymans terms. I also know that you never professed to be a scientist.

You were though speculating as to why there were no results released and giving the impression to others that you had some greater insight into the lab processes (your retort about giving a comprehensive reply) by describing MVAC, when that relates to extraction rather than analysis. Your initial posts implied that it was a rather simple matter when the fact is it can be more complex and difficult than laypeople appreciate.

@bjsc, most on here know of your identity, your background in forensics, the fact you have access to the Garda files on the murder and your relationship with Sophie’s family in France. So I hope you continue to put your time in researching our queries and imparting your insights into the murder.

They were saying they didn't understand the delay about the results as MVAC was a quick process. They were also answering other peoples queries about the delay with lab results, not with that's not my area of expertise I'm not certain, but with an air they were an authority on that area.

They clearly know nothing about molecular analysis, if they saw a report showing STR profiles and think that is a numerical output. There is no DNA analysis technique that gives a numerical output, it literally makes no sense. Which shows they have not even a basic knowledge of molecular techniques relating to DNA. Which is fine. It doesn't mean they aren't a useful contributor, or don't have great insights into the case. But it is obvious to me now how much the are overstating their knowledge in general and makes me doubt a lot of what they have said in the past.

I never doubted they were a forensic investigator. Forensics involves a wide array of disciplines and there may be varying levels of insight a forensics investigator has into each discipline.

The initial quotes were querying why results were taking so long when MVAC extraction is so quick, when that is only one step of the process. A lot of people seem to think genetics is a case of inputting a sample and a computer spitting out a result. While there are some closed box CE-IVD systems like that within diagnostics labs (and caveat emptor for labs using them) in most cases a scientist is going through the outputs, trying to determine if results are real or artefact, and in the case of mixed samples trying to determine what marker belongs to which individual. That result would then have to be checked by another scientist.

In a busy lab that might take time, particularly if the analysis is particularly difficult, which I imagine this would be as it involves a novel (for FSI) extraction method and any sample is of unknown provenance and may belong to any number of individuals. It might require discussion of multiple scientists to get a consensus result. As it is a cold case review and not an active case I could also imagine that there may be more urgency in signing out active cases than this case.

But if you think that less useful an insight than someone giving an AI response of lab turnaround times may vary you do you.

And I was explaining why that wasn't a straightforward process and could take time. If no one wants to pay heed to that fine, but I'm entitled to call out people who are minimising the difficulty of it.

A level of irony that Oscar Wilde himself would find amusing.