Beyond the Higgs Boson: The “Prosecutor’s Fallacy” Does Not Explain Why Experimenters Are Cautious About Announcing New Discoveries

A posting of July 6, 2012, " The Probability that the Higgs Boson Has Been Discovered ,"  mentioned the transposition of a p-value...

Flaky Academic Journals

Barely a week goes by when I am not asked to submit an article to or become an editor of the Journal of This or That . One such missive is f...

What Proves that "the expert and his methods couldn’t possibly be reliable"?

I am developing an allergic reaction to the following kind of argument: "A forensic-science expert testified that a trace at the crime ...

DNA Evidence Causes Wrongful Convictions 15% of the Time!?

Today's Forensic Magazine reports that Recent estimates indicate that as many as 15 of every 100 incarcerated offenders where DNA was ...

Frontline's Expose of DNA Testing: Yes and No

The content of a recent Frontline story on “ The Surprisingly Imperfect Science of DNA Testing: How a Proven Tool May Be Anything But ” will...

The Junk DNA Wars

This month, the New York Times ' published a report on “the junk DNA wars” asking “ Is Most of Our DNA Garbage ”? 1 / Readers of the art...

Up in Smoke: 5 Million Neonatal Blood Samples Incinerated

Originally posted: Double Helix Law Blog , Mar. 15, 2010 An effort to avoid the pointless destruction of the millions of Guthrie cards maint...

A Texas Tall Tale of “DNA Deception”

Originally posted: Double Helix Law Blog , Mar. 4, 2010 A “non-profit, nonpartisan public media organization,” the Texas Tribune broke a re...