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The idea that DNA evidence is infallible is pernicious and wrong. Google "lab tech falsified results" to see literally hundreds of thousands of criminal cases
by jellicle 13y ago
The idea that DNA evidence is infallible is pernicious and wrong. Google "lab tech falsified results" to see literally hundreds of thousands of criminal cases in the U.S. alone, where the supposed infallibility of lab results was used to convict innocent people.
- rayiner 13y agoWhile DNA evidence is not infallible, there are not "hundreds of thousands" of cases of faulty convictions based on DNA.
- jellicle 13y agoOnly because there haven't been that many cases based on it. As it becomes more routine, we will discover - as we have with other lab results - that DNA tests have often been falsified, by lazy or incompetent or corrupt lab workers, and that those test results have sent thousands of people to prison - as is true with other sorts of lab tests, often drug tests, as Googling will plainly show you.
- Zigurd 13y agohttp://www.npr.org/2013/03/14/174269211/mass-crime-lab-scandal-reverberates-across-state http://www.npr.org/2013/03/14/174269211/mass-crime-lab-scand... One chemist. one lab. 34,000 cases of falsified evidence. What would you bet on: One bad apple? Or are there more of these throughout the country?