That’s fair. As someone related to the science field, I am skeptical of police (anything, but especially their) ability to investigate things like this.

I have had Excel delete information from datasheets and have received data where cells were changed to dates because someone opened up the file in Excel. It seems like that was a sticking point in the article.

Unsurprisingly, she did half this shit to process samples faster which speaks to the systemic problem of underfunded and overworked scientists.