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Sorry but forensic ”expertise” in the court room has always been laughable. In ”full view of the judge and jury” means absolutely nothing when these people are completely scientifically illiterate and defer to the so called expert who has a financial incentive to help the prosecutor. There’s an entire industry of people who make their livings by reliably testifying to the guilt of defendants and then being compensated for their “expertise.” They just need to be paraded as experts and how would a layperson be expected to know any better? The quality of defense in the American justice system has everything to do with who can afford to pay for it. I could cite a hundred sources but here’s a small sample...

[0] https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/03/reversing-legacy-jun...

[1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30447642/

[2] https://theconversation.com/how-corruption-in-forensic-scien...

[3] https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2009/09/07/trial-by-fire




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