The New York Times reports that the National Academy of Science is about to issue a report on "scientific" evidence commonly used in criminal cases. "People who have seen it say it is a sweeping critique of many forensic methods that the police and prosecutors rely on, including fingerprinting, firearms identification and analysis of bite marks, blood spatter, hair and handwriting." http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/05/us/05forensics.htmlThis reports follows a 2004 NAS report totally discrediting comparative bullet lead analysis which the FBI was claiming could determine whether a bullet found at a crime scene came from the same batch as bullets found in a suspect's possession. That claim was a total fiction, as it turns out, yet the evidence was introduced in many criminal cases.
SCOIDBlog will provide a link when the report is issued.
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