Welcome back..I delved into grime and his dogs leaving no stone unturned. As I have said many times before this I blame grime more than anyone..including amaral for his claims Re his dogs. It was reported that gtimr mesmerised Lenny Harper of the Jersey police with his claims of his dogs abilities and did the same in Portugal .
There were no 200 cases with a 100% record..the dogs were not the best in the world.
Ive said numerous times if the dogs were half as good as grime claimed then the McCanns were guilty..
So what did the dogs alert to...to the McCanns and noone else..looked like grime did cue them
..what other explanation is there..what does this say for the alerts in the Bianca Jones cade
I don't think the dogs alerts generally or their use are flawed. It's not voodoo. As we've batted back and forth before, Professor Casella wrote many a paper on their efficacy. I just think there may have been misinterpretation, or if there were cues they were unintentional. I certainly don't think anything underhand took place. But who knows. It's all sort of irrelevant now, I suppose, but looking back it was the one facet that perhaps was most divisive. Certainly from a sceptical point of view it was hard to look past, irrespective of the contrary argument. But that's cognitive bias for you, coupled with a disdain for the parent perhaps.
Edit: This comment at the end of your post, that I just re-read, is telling:
looked like grime did cue them
..what other explanation is there You're essentially agreeing that there is an explanation that needs to be found. As a sceptic I also needed an explanation for the dogs to be wrong for me to be wrong.
I'm not arguing, I'm just pointing out the same sticking point needed an answer from both sides and somebody was wrong, as is always the case.
I sort of knew last year that the weight of evidence was beginning to shift, but I'm an arsehole and decided that debating you was more fun than befriending you. This latest development has brought me out of the closet - it was a line in the sand. It may be damage limitation, time will tell, but something is in the wind Dav.