The Washington Post published a story so horrifying this weekend that it would stop your breath: “The Justice Department and FBI have formally acknowledged that nearly every examiner in an elite FBI forensic unit gave flawed testimony in almost all trials in which they offered evidence against criminal defendants over more than a two-decade period before 2000.”
What went wrong? The Post continues: “Of 28 examiners with the FBI Laboratory’s microscopic hair comparison unit, 26 overstated forensic matches in ways that favored prosecutors in more than 95 percent of the 268 trials reviewed so far.” The shameful, horrifying errors were uncovered in a massive, three-year review by the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers and the Innocence Project. Following revelations published in recent years, the two groups are helping the government with the country’s largest ever post-conviction review of questioned forensic evidence.
Chillingly, as the Post continues, “the cases include those of 32 defendants sentenced to death.” Of these defendants, 14 have already been executed or died in prison.
The massive review raises questions about the veracity of not just expert hair testimony, but also the bite-mark and other forensic testimony offered as objective, scientific evidence to jurors who, not unreasonably, believed that scientists in white coats knew what they were talking about. As Peter Neufeld, co-founder of the Innocence Project, put it, “The FBI’s three-decade use of microscopic hair analysis to incriminate defendants was a complete disaster.”
Czyli bardzo możliwe że zostali straceni niewinni ludzie z powodu tego pseudonaukowego tuszowania. Tak to jest jak rządowa rozpasana agencja jest rozliczana z ilości wykrytych przestępstw. Sami będą wymyślać cuda, fałszować naukę, tylko po to aby poprawić statystyki.
mój obecny facet pod każdym względem w rankingu wypada gorzej od moich byłych, ale za to traktuje mnie gorzej i ma #!$%@? ego w kosmos bardziej niż oni wszyscy razem łącznie. skąd się biorą tacy ludzie XD #zwiazki #depresja
Czyli bardzo możliwe że zostali straceni niewinni ludzie z powodu tego pseudonaukowego tuszowania. Tak to jest jak rządowa rozpasana agencja jest rozliczana z ilości wykrytych przestępstw. Sami będą wymyślać cuda, fałszować naukę, tylko po to aby poprawić statystyki.
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2015/04/fbi_s_flawed_forensics_expert_testimony_hair_analysis_bite_marks_fingerprints.html
Polecam przeczytać cały artykuł. Aż się włos jeży na głowie :)