The New Phrenology
2017-11-19 19:40:07.728953+01 by Dan Lyke 0 comments
FBI admits flaws in hair analysis over decades:
Of 28 examiners with the FBI Laboratory’s microscopic hair comparison unit, 26 overstated forensic matches in ways that favored prosecutors in more than 95 percent of the 268 trials reviewed so far, according to the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL) and the Innocence Project, which are assisting the government with the country’s largest post-conviction review of questioned forensic evidence.
See also: Slate: Pseudoscience in the Witness Box — The FBI faked an entire field of forensic science. Rounding up hair analysis, bite marks, and arson analysis.