Breathalyzers and Beyond: The Unintuitive Meanings of "Measurement Error" and "True Values" in the 2009 NRC Report on Forensic Science

Five years ago, the National Research Council released its eagerly awaited and repeatedly postponed report on "Strengthening Forensic ...

Forensic Science’s Latest Proof of Uniqueness

A federally funded study on the "Determination of Unique Fracture Patterns in Glass and Glassy Polymers" affirms that fracture-pat...

Error on Error: The Washington 23

Frequently cited in warnings on the risks of errors in DNA typing is a 2004 article prepared by unnamed staff of the Seattle Post-Intelligen...

Error on Error: Quashing Brian Kelly's Conviction

Are there any errors in DNA testing? Are there any errors that produce false positives? Do DNA databases generate any false leads? Do false ...

Get Serious: The US Department of Justice's Amicus Brief in Haskell v. Harris

As the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit returns to the question of the constitutionality of California's DNA database law, th...