A wake-up call on the junk science infesting our courtrooms - The Washington Post

[Thad]

(https:// https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/a-wake-up-call-on-the-junk-science-infesting-our-courtrooms/2016/09/19/85b6eb22-7e90-11e6-8d13-d7c704ef9fd9_story.html?tid=hybrid_collaborative_3_na&utm_term=.5f70830285ec)https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/a-wake-up-call-on-the-junk-science-infesting-our-courtrooms/2016/09/19/85b6eb22-7e90-11e6-8d13-d7c704ef9fd9_story.html?tid=hybrid_collaborative_3_na&utm_term=.5f70830285ec

President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology

A non-partisan scientific commissions findings

https://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/microsites/ostp/PCAST/pcast_forensic_science_report_final.pdf

[Michael Anthony]

An enlightening excerpt from the September 2016 Report to the President on Forensic Science in Criminal Courts (https://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/microsites/ostp/PCAST/pcast_forensic_science_report_final.pdf) regarding microscopic hair analysis: "...FBI examiners had provided scientifically invalid testimony in more than 95 percent of cases where examiner-provided testimony was used to inculpate a defendant at trial."