U.S: Forcing change in forensic science

Scandals in labs across the country illustrate the need to reform the discipline, but change has been slow in coming. Five years ago, the National Academy of Sciences put out a report condemning the state of forensic science. It concluded that many common forensic techniques—the analysis of fingerprints, bite marks, blood splatter, and ballistics, for example—lack sufficient scientific underpinnings. Thousands of convictions were thrown into question.
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