Hundreds of Errors in DNA Databases: What Do They Mean?

The other day, the New York Times reported that "[t]he Federal Bureau of Investigation, in a review of a national DNA database, has id...

The Signal, the Noise, and the Errors

Published in September 2012, The Signal and the Noise by Nate Silver soon reached The New York Times best-seller list for nonfiction. Amaz...

Tres Mal Errors with DNA Evidence

A story in the Denver Post (Gurman 2014) begins with the disturbing news that A malfunction in a DNA processing machine led to the scrambli...