> Any examples? Pretty much everything that makes up "forensics", except for DNA analysis (and even that carries a huge asterisk). Fingerprints, bite marks, b

> Any examples? Pretty much everything that makes up "forensics", except for DNA analysis (and even that carries a huge asterisk). Fingerprints, bite marks, blood spatter... the list goes on. Drug tests are borderline - reliable drug tests exist, but police often use tests with much higher false positive rates. Believe it or not, "police psychics" also exist[0], and are used to manufacture probable cause, so that also fits the definition of "used to convict people". Forensic psuedoscience is widely known to be junk by modern scientific standards, but courts have stuck by it, in part because "that's how it's been done for decades/centuries", and in part because they have acknowledged that it would be too difficult to convict many cases if forensics were deemed inadmissible. [0] https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP96-00788R000100280009-3.pdf https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP96-00788R0001002...