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."
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(Score: 3, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 16 2017, @04:11AM (3 children)
They mistook your stupid troll for biting satire? I guess Poe's Law cuts both ways...
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Azuma Hazuki on Sunday April 16 2017, @05:48AM
More likely it was one of our resident racists mod-gasming all over the post. We have some people here who would be more at home in the early 18th century...
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 16 2017, @10:53AM
I have to say I almost up-modded it because I read it as having to be ironic. It works superbly well as biting ironic satire. Taken literally, it's just idiotic. If a troll knows they're being idiotic and doesn't believe what they're writing, then doesn't that qualify as a form of satire?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 16 2017, @10:56AM
Would +1 Funny be more appropriate for biting satire then? Not all satire is funny though and I don't think this one is.