Forensic TV shows "help criminals escape police". LONDON (Reuters) - Television shows like CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, depicting forensic scientists at work, are helping criminals avoid identification, New Scientist magazine said on Wednesday. [Reuters: Science]

I love this. As if the criminals could not figure out what forensic labs are doing unless they saw it on TV. And so, if CSI was not on, the criminals would never have figured out:

Burglars were wearing gloves during break-ins and rapists were using condoms to avoid leaving DNA evidence.

Car thieves had even taken to leaving cigarette butts from bins in stolen cars to muddy the forensic trail.

Gloves and condoms. Yep, they got all those ideas from TV shows. Right! TV gets blamed for some stupid things but this is a pretty lightweight article.  10:56:04 PM