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Presumably each side will present the best facts available to fill in the jury members knowledge. Can you imagine if jury members (some of whom might believe i
by eximius 9y ago
Presumably each side will present the best facts available to fill in the jury members knowledge.
Can you imagine if jury members (some of whom might believe in homeopathy or other bizarre pseudoscience) were allowed to base their judgements on `facts` not presented by one of the parties involved? It'd be madness, very quickly.
- yorwba 9y ago> Can you imagine if jury members (some of whom might believe in homeopathy or other bizarre pseudoscience) were allowed to base their judgements on `facts` not presented by one of the parties involved? But jury members are allowed to use their pre-existing knowledge of homeopathy, are they not? They're just prevented from learning more about homeopathy (or psychopathology) in a way that could influence their decision. Now I wonder if an elementary textbook on a topic would be admissible evidence, and whether jury members would be allowed to ask for it.
- Chris_Jay 9y agoThat a jury is made of common people who might have a wide range of beliefs seems rather the point of the system though doesn't it? Also, this is your weekly reminder that vaccines are homeopathy.
- eximius 9y agoVaccines and allergy shots are NOT homeopathy and that is extremely dangerous to say. Homeopathy is characterized by the belief that 'like cures like'. They ingest poisons to innoculate themselves to fevers, etc. It is very, very different from simply gaining a resistance to specific compounds.