Weird and Wacky Wednesdays: Volume 380
This week on Weird and Wacky Wednesdays: Bad Science Ends in Court
I learned to love science when I started working with a former RCMP toxicologist in my last year of law school. One of the nice things about DUI law is there is a lot of science, and as my career continued, I discovered there is a lot of bad science backing the assumptions police and prosecutors urge upon the courts. Bad science gets published. It gets funded. It gets defended with remarkable confidence. Most of the time, it only collapses when someone starts asking probing questions.
Here are three weird and wacky law stories where science wandered into the legal system and did not enjoy the experience.
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