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Yes, established recently to deal with an enormous crisis of failures in forensic science that were putting innocent people in jail in huge numbers across the c
by wfo 10y ago
Yes, established recently to deal with an enormous crisis of failures in forensic science that were putting innocent people in jail in huge numbers across the country. The FBI crime lab was essentially doing junk science and sending expert technicians to testify and say "The astrological sign of the defendant that I've described in technical scientific terms you don't understand tells us he was at the crime scene with 99.99% accuracy, trust me, I'm a senior scientist at the FBI crime lab."
It's a huge deal if you're accused of a crime or if you care about innocent people going free.
- DanBC 10y agoand it's wider than criminal justice, some of these tests are used in family cases too. Here's a blog post from England about hair strand analysis for substance misuse: http://www.pinktape.co.uk/cases/hair-strand-testing-some-interesting-information/ http://www.pinktape.co.uk/cases/hair-strand-testing-some-int...