{"id":538,"date":"2009-02-05T10:15:30","date_gmt":"2009-02-05T14:15:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.therestlesssleep.com\/?p=538"},"modified":"2009-12-07T15:29:36","modified_gmt":"2009-12-07T19:29:36","slug":"forensic-science-found-wanting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.therestlesssleep.com\/?p=538","title":{"rendered":"Forensic Science Found Wanting?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Forensic evidence that has helped convict thousands of defendants for nearly a century is often the product of shoddy scientific practices that should be upgraded and standardized, according to accounts of a draft report by the nation&#8217;s pre-eminent scientific research group.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The report by the\u00a0National Academy of Sciences\u00a0is to be released this month.&#8221; \u00a0From an article in the New York Times today. \u00a0The full article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/02\/05\/us\/05forensics.html?hp=&amp;pagewanted=all\">here<\/a>. \u00a0What a mess. \u00a0But I want to see the report before saying anything else, but oh my.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.therestlesssleep.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/policelabsmaller.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-539\" title=\"policelabsmaller\" src=\"https:\/\/www.therestlesssleep.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/policelabsmaller.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"371\" height=\"297\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Forensic evidence that has helped convict thousands of defendants for nearly a century is often the product of shoddy scientific practices that should be upgraded and standardized, according to accounts of a draft report by the nation&#8217;s pre-eminent scientific research group. &#8220;The report by the\u00a0National Academy of Sciences\u00a0is to be released this month.&#8221; \u00a0From an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piV6s-8G","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therestlesssleep.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therestlesssleep.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therestlesssleep.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therestlesssleep.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therestlesssleep.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=538"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.therestlesssleep.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":743,"href":"https:\/\/www.therestlesssleep.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538\/revisions\/743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therestlesssleep.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therestlesssleep.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therestlesssleep.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}