@[email protected] to politics @lemmy.world • 1 year agoBite mark analysis has no basis in science, experts now say. Why is it still being used in court?www.nbcnews.comexternal-linkmessage-square15fedilinkarrow-up1182cross-posted to: [email protected][email protected]
arrow-up1182external-linkBite mark analysis has no basis in science, experts now say. Why is it still being used in court?www.nbcnews.com@[email protected] to politics @lemmy.world • 1 year agomessage-square15fedilinkcross-posted to: [email protected][email protected]
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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink9•1 year agoIs this politics? Feels more like legal scholarship. Many things we rely on for truthfulness in court are pretty bogus. Eyewitness testimony itself is objectively unreliable yet we give it outsized weight.
Is this politics? Feels more like legal scholarship. Many things we rely on for truthfulness in court are pretty bogus. Eyewitness testimony itself is objectively unreliable yet we give it outsized weight.