Open investigation

Fiction. No real student, family or grade appears.

Drawing, panel 27: Ethics of conclusions.

Panel 27Ethics of conclusions · 2026-09-28

Drawing, panel 28: Synthesize all evidence.

Panel 28Synthesize all evidence · 2026-09-30

Drawing, panel 29: Build the evidence board.

Panel 29Build the evidence board · 2026-10-01

Drawing, panel 30: Write the report CER.

Panel 30Write the report CER · 2026-10-02

Panel 31Submit investigation report

Transcript

reading order · 5 panels

Ethics of conclusions

2026-09-28

How much evidence is enough to name a cause of death? Conclude too early and you ruin someone. Never conclude and a family gets no answer.

Synthesize all evidence

2026-09-30

Four evidence streams: the scene, the lab, the suspect, the autopsy. They are not equally reliable and pretending they are is how you get a confident wrong answer.

Build the evidence board

2026-10-01

Best day of the semester. Two of us read the same tissue finding differently, so we drew both on the board with a conflict marker between them.

MR. MENDOZA

Right call. A board that hides a disagreement is lying.

Write the report CER

2026-10-02

Peer review before submitting.

CLASSMATE

You explained three of your four streams and just listed the fourth.

Submit investigation report

Six weeks ago I did not know what a CER was. Today I wrote a four-stream investigative argument with a limitations section.

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