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Coming to grips with unscientific forensic practices

The Fort Worth Start Telegram yesterday published a lengthy, remarkable piece from Yamil Berard titled "Stakes are high as doubt is cast on forensic lab techniques." The article is one of the first published in the MSM in Texas to fully explore the implications of conclusions published earlier this year by the National Academies of Science (NAS) that many common forensic techniques had no scientific basis and their validity had never been tested - particularly comparative disciplines where individual technicians seek to match patterns in everything from fingerprints to tire tracks to ballistics to bite marks. Reports Berard:The Texas Forensic Science Commission had planned this month to begin a series of discussions about a national report that opened a Pandora?s box of questions about crime lab techniques...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on November 30, 2009 (boomark / email).