This is terrible. More thoughts from Instapundit:
When I was in college, I interned for a criminal defense attorney who told me that although most people, including defense lawyers, assumed that the FBI lab was a gold standard, he always sent stuff to an independent lab for verification, and half the time it came back with a different result from the FBI lab. He said he didn’t understand why more lawyers didn’t do that, since a different result in itself might produce reasonable doubt.
The amount of injustice in our “justice” system is increasingly disturbing. And there are rarely any consequences for it, except to those unjustly punished.
When feet are not held to fire, humans get away with anything they can. An off duty cop hit my sister’s car while going through a drive through. The officer claimed my sister was doing 30 mph when she was doing more like 5. The officer went into full intimidation mode until she discovered my sister’s son was an officer that worked out of the same office… and jack in the box had movie cameras that recorded the whole thing. The officer paid in full.
I always thought engineers were a sort of practical scientist until I began to work with some years ago. The quality varies greatly.
Asking a doctor is fine, but always check with the nurses and pharmacists.
I still think they’re pretty awesome. Check this out.
In the first paragraph, the author criticizes the FBI crime lab.
Then, he praises Sens. Leahy and Cornyn for their efforts to mandate Federal supervision of crime labs. Does anyone see a contradiction there?
I know in Australia. there was a complaint by a thief in his book that the police often plant microscopic evidence.
The other point is that I know my limited chemistry experience that everyone in the class often came up with dramatically different results in the same lab.