Proposed Uniform Language for Forensic Serology

The second document listed in the announcement of "Uniform Language" (UL) documents for forensic science is the “ Proposed Unifor...

More NCFS Draft Documents Released for Public Comment

The National Commission on Forensic Science (NCFS) has released nine new initial draft documents for public comment . A list of these subcom...

NIST Distances Itself from the First OSAC-approved Forensic Science Standard

On January 11, 2016, a group created by the federal government to develop better standards for forensic science approved -- without changing...

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...

The First OSAC-approved Standard for Forensic Science

"All results for every forensic science method should indicate the uncertainty in the measurements that are made, and studies must be c...