10th Anniversary Of Supreme Court's Daubert Ruling

Posted by timothy on Wednesday July 2, 2003 @05:52AM from the not-dilbert dept.

scraggly codger writes "Slashdot readers might find it interesting to learn about the ongoing legal controversy over the role of federal judges as gatekeepers for scientific evidence in civil and criminal litigation in the US. Ten years ago the Supreme Court provided guidelines for admissibility of scientific evidence in the Daubert ruling. Readers might find it hard to believe from the text of the ruling, but the result has been a huge increase in the power of judges to exclude scientific evidence from presentation to juries, based on what many scientists and other observers consider an incredibly naive (or perhaps merely self-serving) model of science. There's been a spate of news stories covering the topic, perhaps the most prominent in the WSJ of Friday, 27 June, "'Junk Science' Ban Also Keeps Jurors From Sound Evidence" (regrettably not freely available online). I particularly recommend Daubert: The Most Influential Supreme Court Ruling You've Never Heard Of."

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OMG! by GillBates0 · 2003-07-02 06:00 · Score: 1, Offtopic

Readers might find it hard to believe from the text of the ruling, but the result has been a huge increase in the power of judges to exclude scientific evidence from presentation to juries, based on what many scientists and other observers consider an incredibly naive (or perhaps merely self-serving) model of science./
Wow!still waiting for that compound sentence to filter through.

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Re:self-serving people? in today's age? by Delphiki · 2003-07-02 06:03 · Score: 1, Offtopic

So true. God I wish we had a totalitarian government so someone could finally crush all those selfish people under his boot and make them be altruistic.

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Re:Please... Don't Reproduse. by BigBadBri · 2003-07-02 07:14 · Score: 0, Offtopic

You synisal sarsastis sunt.

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Muggle Science by beta21 · 2003-07-02 08:13 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Does this just exclude muggle science or wizarding science as well?