http://www.slate.com/articles/health_an ... src=fol_fbThe most respected scientific organization in the country has revealed how deeply, fundamentally unscientific forensics is. A complete overhaul of our evidence analysis is desperately needed. Without it, the number of falsely convicted will only keep growing.
This article is good.
Ive been interested In forensics for quite some time now. There's a intro to forensics class coming up on Coursera that I am looking forward too.
The article was unsettling and yet confirms the problem of confirmation bias in science that is more rampant than laymen think. Scientists are prone to it.
Think of an amateur scientist that claims he has scientifically confirmed his hypothesis when in fact all he's really doing is confirming his own biases that are often revealed by rhetoric.