SoylentNews is people
SoylentNews
from the who-really-needs-independent-experts-anyway? dept.
Common Dreams reports
The Trump administration's anti-science bent has reached the Department of Justice (DOJ), with Attorney General Jeff Sessions saying [April 10] that the department is ending the National Commission on Forensic Science.
The 30-member panel was described by ThinkProgress as "a group of scientists, judges, prosecutors, defense attorneys, and other experts tasked by the Obama administration in 2013 with raising standards for the use of forensic evidence in criminal proceedings".
In its place, a senior forensic advisor will be appointed "to interface with forensic science stakeholders and advise department leadership", Sessions' statement said.
[...] "The reliance of law enforcement on questionable science and the overstatement of the reliability of that science has been a leading cause of the wrongful conviction of innocent people", said National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL) president Barry Pollack on Monday. "The reason the National Commission on Forensic Science has been so important is that it includes leading independent scientists, allowing an unbiased expert evaluation of which techniques are scientifically valid and which are not. NACDL is terribly disappointed that even while acknowledging the crucial role played by the National Commission on Forensic Science, the Attorney General has chosen to disband it."
Additional Coverage:
Previous: Forensic Hair Matches: More Junk Science from the FBI
(Score: 5, Insightful) by The Mighty Buzzard on Sunday April 16 2017, @01:00AM (10 children)
That's to be expected from a gewg_ submission.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 4, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 16 2017, @03:20AM (8 children)
And yet its still 100% accurate.
Reality's well known liberal bias giving you sour grapes again?
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 16 2017, @03:35AM (5 children)
It literally isn't 100% accurate because it is impossible to wage war on a concept.
(Score: 3, Touché) by mhajicek on Sunday April 16 2017, @03:43AM (4 children)
You mean like drugs or terrorism?
The spacelike surfaces of time foliations can have a cusp at the surface of discontinuity. - P. Hajicek
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 16 2017, @05:26AM (3 children)
Drugs are tangible and terrorism is an activity. Islam or communism are concepts.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 16 2017, @05:53AM (2 children)
Small-minded literalism and dictionary pedantry are also concepts, both of which deserve to be made war on.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 16 2017, @07:23AM (1 child)
"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines."
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 16 2017, @09:22AM
JFC. Will you two get a room already?!
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Sunday April 16 2017, @10:22AM
Newp. Fair's fair. He gets his clickbait titles and I get mine.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 16 2017, @04:21PM
>Reality's well known liberal bias giving you sour grapes again?
According to a totally impartial fact check by a company owned by a newspaper who endorses Democrats for every single election in their 100 year history, this statement is true!
(Score: 3, Insightful) by aristarchus on Sunday April 16 2017, @07:54PM
to be expected from a gewg_ submission.
And this is to be expected from a TMB reaction to a gewg_ submission. (Cain't wait 'til we have video on SoylentNews, we could actually see the reaction, and Ethanol . . . . OK, no videos on SoylentNews.)