You need to be very careful with what you take the evidence to mean. If no one can fake photos, then a picture claiming to show the loch ness monster could still be a puppet or statue. A tiny object close to the camera. In a different lake altogether. Or at that photo quality, a photo of a painting. All you learn is that at some point their existed an object that looked like that.
For the genetic evidence, if you do genetic tests on a skull in a grave, that tells you about whoever is in the grave, but maybe not about whoevers name is carved on the gravestone. (Don’t even assume all the bones are from the same person if not all have been genetically tested.) A competent conspiracy trying to frame someone for murder could have taken a few hairs and placed them at the crime scene.
If you see a bunch of bones with spear-holes and other marks of battle, and broken bronze spearheads. Maybe this was a bronze age war. Or maybe those people died of a plague, and the bronze age conspiracy stabbed them and scattered broken spearheads around, to leave a scene looking like a war.
A competent conspiracy trying to frame someone for murder could have taken a few hairs and placed them at the crime scene.
Yeah, in this case I think we can only use genetic testing for the timeframe where conspirators didn’t know genetic testing would ever be possible. You’re right that you don’t need DNA synthesis if you can plant hair from someone else.
You need to be very careful with what you take the evidence to mean. If no one can fake photos, then a picture claiming to show the loch ness monster could still be a puppet or statue. A tiny object close to the camera. In a different lake altogether. Or at that photo quality, a photo of a painting. All you learn is that at some point their existed an object that looked like that.
For the genetic evidence, if you do genetic tests on a skull in a grave, that tells you about whoever is in the grave, but maybe not about whoevers name is carved on the gravestone. (Don’t even assume all the bones are from the same person if not all have been genetically tested.) A competent conspiracy trying to frame someone for murder could have taken a few hairs and placed them at the crime scene.
If you see a bunch of bones with spear-holes and other marks of battle, and broken bronze spearheads. Maybe this was a bronze age war. Or maybe those people died of a plague, and the bronze age conspiracy stabbed them and scattered broken spearheads around, to leave a scene looking like a war.
Yeah, in this case I think we can only use genetic testing for the timeframe where conspirators didn’t know genetic testing would ever be possible. You’re right that you don’t need DNA synthesis if you can plant hair from someone else.
Even if they are just trying to match colour and thickness, they could have still taken a hair from the person being framed.