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"Forensic science" has a long history of being flagrant psuedo-science, very often being a morally bankrupt abuse of statistics.


My favorite example:

>In one case, West claimed to have matched the bite marks in a half-eaten bologna sandwich to the defendant. The jury convicted. (The conviction was overturned on appeal when defense lawyers discovered that the autopsy report recorded a partial bologna sandwich in the stomach of the victim.)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-watch/wp/2015/02/17/...




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