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...

"Remarkably Accurate": The Miami-Dade Police Study of Latent Fingerprint Identification (Pt. 3)

The Department of Justice continues to communicate the sweeping view that fingerprint examiners make extremely few errors in their work. A f...

More on Task Relevance in Forensic Tests

Yesterday, I suggested that the National Commission on Forensic Science's views on task relevance are a significant step forward, and I ...

Blinding Forensic Analysts to Task-irrelevant Information: A National Commission (NCFS) Speaks Out

This week, the National Commission on Forensic Science (NCFS) approved a “views document” entitled Ensuring That Forensic Analysis Is Based ...

Hair Evidence in the “Clearly Not Exonerated” Exoneration of Mark Reid

On November 3, the fictional forensic scientist in the world’s most watched television drama was aghast that she had once performed microsco...