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#248 - M. Chris Fabricant on JUNK SCIENCE AND THE AMERICAN CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM
Books on Pod with Trey Elling
English - May 25, 2022 11:42 - 57 minutes - 52.4 MB - ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsBooks Arts health fitness business lifestyle entrepreneur marketing entrepreneurship interview wellness nutrition Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
M. Chris Fabricant, Director of Strategic Litigation for the Innocence Project & expert on forensic science and the US criminal justice system, chats with Trey Elling about JUNK SCIENCE AND THE AMERICAN CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM. Topics include:
The birth of junk science as a jury-swaying courtroom tool (2:22)
'Peer reviewed' as a misunderstood term regarding science (10:33)
An early 1990s US Supreme Court case favoring Dow Pharmaceuticals helping with the awakening on junk science (19:55)
The challenge of swaying those whose careers have been built on a belief in junk science (26:14)
The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) uncovering major flaws with the most popular forensic sciences in 2006 (29:38)
Debunking the uniqueness and certainty of fingerprints (35:56)
How it went when the NAS revealed its findings at the annual American Academy of Forensic Science meeting in 2009 (42:59)
Michael West as an especially belligerent example of dental junk science (47:32)
Unindicted co-ejaculator theories (52:28)
The importance of Steven Mark Chaney's story (55:00)