Loch Ness Monster

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Across
  1. 9. As an agent, you have to know the ways your own thinking can _ you.
  2. 10. A witness who has something to gain from the outcome is this.
  3. 11. The neighbor saw lights in the sky. Her statement is this type of evidence.
  4. 13. A second student who saw nothing to gain confirmed the bullying report. Her account did this to the first student's story.
  5. 14. The weakest type of evidence.
  6. 16. A farmer says, “A pink flying saucer landed in my field.” This is a _.
  7. 18. Testimony, signs, and objects that an investigator examines.
  8. 19. The apple in the farmer's field seemed important at first, but agents realized it wasn’t _.
  9. 20. _ piece of evidence is never enough to prove the truth.
  10. 22. This piece of evidence was eliminated from the pink flying saucer case once investigators learned where it came from
Down
  1. 1. Before closing a case, a good investigator always looks for a(n) _ explanation — another reason the evidence could point somewhere else
  2. 2. These explained the unusual bite marks on the apple.
  3. 3. Before investigators knew about the braces, "aliens bit the apple" was this _.
  4. 4. If different sources agree, the claim is more _.
  5. 5. A reporter prints a story believing it is true, but it is wrong.
  6. 6. The metallic debris had no confirmed source. That uncertainty is this kind of warning sign.
  7. 7. The security camera footage of a student taking a backpack is this type of evidence.
  8. 8. A good BSSI agent practices this — questioning whether something is true before accepting it.
  9. 12. Being a doctor or a professor doesn’t make you a _ witness.
  10. 13. If each piece of evidence points to the same person, the evidence is _.
  11. 15. As an agent, you must be willing to _ your conclusion when the evidence demands it.
  12. 17. Corroborating evidence must come from _ sources.
  13. 19. Never confuse a good story with proof.
  14. 21. This gets people to believe something false and spreads misinformation.