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Latest Forensic Technology, Pattern Analysis, May Be ‘Pseudoscience’
Loaded on May 15, 2020
by Michael Fortino, Ph.D
published in Criminal Legal News
June, 2020, page 16
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junk science.
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United States of America.
by Michael Fortino, Ph.D.
Television crime dramas and docudramas have, for decades, lulled the public into accepting the infallibility of forensic crime science. However, a groundbreaking study by the National Academy of Sciences (“NAS”) — made up of legal, technical, and policy experts authorized by Congress in 2005—was tasked with ...
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