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Forensic "Science" is Anything But

posted by LaminatorX on Friday June 13 2014, @03:09PM   Printer-friendly
from the Injustice-for-All dept.

Anonymous Coward writes:

In 2009, a National Academy of Sciences committee embarked on a long-overdue quest to study typical forensics analyses with an appropriate level of scientific scrutiny--and the results were deeply chilling. Aside from DNA analysis, not a single forensic practice held up to rigorous inspection.

Far from an infallible science, forensics is a decades-long experiment in which undertrained lab workers jettison the scientific method in favor of speedy results that fit prosecutors' hunches. No one knows exactly how many people have been wrongly imprisoned--or executed--due to flawed forensics. But the number, most experts agree, is horrifyingly high. A complete overhaul of our evidence analysis is desperately needed.

 
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  • (Score: 2, Redundant) by Zinho on Friday June 13 2014, @03:20PM

    by Zinho (759) on Friday June 13 2014, @03:20PM (#54994)

    Id love to see this as a season storyline arc on Bones >=]

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