http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29258576

Quote:"The fact is that many forensic tests — such as those used to infer the source of toolmarks or bite marks — have never been exposed to stringent scientific scrutiny,"

Quote:It calls on Congress to establish a national institute of forensic science...
In short, the report says the nation's 389 publicly funded crime labs are underfunded, underequipped, and so unconnected to scientific standards that testimony in court about their results is often vastly overstated.

Just giving the labs more money, the panel concludes says, will not solve the problem.

"The forensic science community lacks the necessary governance structure to pull itself up from its current weaknesses," it says.

So let me get this straight. Government (local level) have created such problems that we now need the Feds to come in with a new oversight so that liberties aren't trampled?

Will Fo Shizzle chime in, or just give a resigned *sigh*.

And please Wildebeast, come in and tell me that this just doesn't happen in "science".

Oh, but isn't forensic science more exacting than lets say Global Warming science? Or evolutionary science. I assume when you send people to prison using forensic science, it nothing like figuring that the Earth's Temperature is changing by .05789356 degrees every 100 years, more or less.

(02-18-2009 03:24 PM)DrTorch Wrote:  And please Wildebeast, come in and tell me that this just doesn't happen in "science".

Don't ask me - you're the one who doesn't believe in DNA.

(02-18-2009 04:31 PM)Wildebeest Wrote:  

(02-18-2009 03:24 PM)DrTorch Wrote:  And please Wildebeast, come in and tell me that this just doesn't happen in "science".

Don't ask me - you're the one who doesn't believe in DNA.