CSI: Junk Science with Josie Duffy Rice
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Pam calliff looks into what it means to be an expert. And the reality is that if your expertise is reliant on bad science, is it an expertise? Here's a guy who went to training class, usually, which is maybe about a week long, maybe less. The people who go to these training classes, tend to be a cop or a detective, or whatever it may be. And they don't tend to have any like, scientific background. They're not scientific experts, right? They're going to a class where they are taught a practice that isn't actually reliable. You see it all the time in trials, where it says, i'm expert at firearm frensic
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