Is "Reasonable Scientific Certainty" Unreasonable?

Next month, the National Commission on Forensic Science is expected to vote on a proposal to make three recommendations about the testimon...

"Stress Tests" by the Department of Justice and the FBI's "Approved Scientific Standards for Testimony and Reports"

Yesterday, Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates addressed the assembled members of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences at their annual...

Is OSAC Painting Itself Out of the Picture? Time to Comment on ASTM E1640-14

The Organization of Scientific Area Committees (OSAC) started on the wrong foot with the first standard it chose to place on its blue-ribbo...

Approximating Individualization: The ASTM's Standard Terminology for Digital Evidence

Forensic scientists portraying existing standards for evidence testing and evaluation have been known to praise the “rigorous standard devel...

Broken Glass: What Do the Data Show?

In Broken Glass, Mangled Statistics , I noted "a plethora of statistical issues" in ASTM E2926-13, a Standard Test Method for Fore...

Broken Glass, Mangled Statistics

The motto of ASTM International is “Helping Our World Work Better.” This internationally recognized standards development organization cont...