Well, in the public's defense of being skeptical of "forensic science" has been a range of outright lying[1] to mystical beliefs that look no different than sha

Well, in the public's defense of being skeptical of "forensic science" has been a range of outright lying[1] to mystical beliefs that look no different than shamanism or voodoo[2]. You should also be aware that the Nation Research Council has done a study[3] on "forensic science" where DNA was the only barely reliable measurement in the entire field. These are methods the US Justice Department/Police/Judges/Prosecutors routinely uses to destroy innocent lives and trick juries. It's not hard to see how people become skeptical. I'm not saying this is the case with the capture of the Golden State Killer, but it's not hard to see how the public lost its trust in these institutions we hold to be accountable and make choices. [1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/crime/fbi-overstated-forensic-hair-matches-in-nearly-all-criminal-trials-for-decades/2015/04/18/39c8d8c6-e515-11e4-b510-962fcfabc310_story.html?utm_term=.bf2b4a7470a4 https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/crime/fbi-overstated-fo... [2] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/can-we-trust-crime-forensics/ https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/can-we-trust-crim... [3] https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/grants/228091.pdf https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/grants/228091.pdf