The Best Insurance Against Miscarriages of Justice Caused by Junk Science: An Admissibility Test That Is Scientifically and Legally Sound

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edward J. Imwinkelried
Keyword(s):  
Junk Science

Clinical Psychology in Court: House of Junk Science?

1998 ◽  
Vol 43 (5) ◽  
pp. 321-324 ◽  
Author(s):  
Saul M. Kassin
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Psychology ◽  
Junk Science

JUNK SCIENCE IS DRIVING US CRAZY

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1996 ◽  
Vol 97 (2) ◽  
pp. 242-242
Author(s):  
Student
Keyword(s):  
Cerebral Palsy ◽  
Epidemiological Study ◽  
Birth Defects ◽  
Expert Testimony ◽  
Whooping Cough ◽  
Environmental Pollutants ◽  
Morning Sickness ◽  
Cat Scan ◽  
Chemically Induced ◽  
Junk Science

A spermicide used with most barrier contraceptives causes birth defects; the whooping cough vaccine causes brain damage; incompetence by obstetricians is a leading cause of cerebral palsy; the morning sickness drug Debendox caused an epidemic of birth defects; environmental pollutants cause chemically-induced AIDS. All of these stories have been reported and all are false. But, as Peter Huber wrote in Galileo's Revenge: Junk Science in the Court Room, they were not reported only in the gutter press and on the TV mid-day quasi documentaries; they were reported in the annals of U.S. and U.K. jurisprudence. One amazing case was a successful $1 million award to a soothsayer who, with expert testimony supporting her, claimed that a CAT scan had removed her psychic powers. Imagine that epidemiological study we would need to do to prove that one! Imagine the debate over the outcome measures!

America’s Health Rankings: An Example of Junk Science

2007 ◽  
Vol 100 (9) ◽  
pp. 913-914 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lee S. Friedman
Keyword(s):  
Junk Science

The war against junk science: the use of expert panels in complex medical-legal scientific litigation

Biomaterials ◽  
1998 ◽  
Vol 19 (16) ◽  
pp. 1425-1432 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph M. Price ◽  
Ellen S. Rosenberg
Keyword(s):  
Junk Science

Disproving junk science

2019 ◽  
Vol 209 ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Paul G. Fisher
Keyword(s):  
Junk Science
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