From Double Helix Law to Here

This blog expands into topics outside the scope of the Double Helix Law blog, published at Penn State. That blog, based loosely on the book, The Double Helix and the Law of Evidence, tracks news and publications about forensic genetics. This one branches out into other areas of forensic science, scientific evidence, and statistical evidence. However, Double Helix Law also includes the following tidbits on forensic statistics or forensic science in general:

• Taking Liberties with the Numbers: Following the lead of the Los Angeles Times, a prize-winning writer misinforms the California Bar in "Guilt by the Numbers: How Fuzzy is the Math that Makes DNA Evidence Look So Compelling to Jurors?"
• Rehash and Mismash in the Washington Monthly: Another misadventure in DNA statistics in which a reporter manufactures "DNA's Dirty Little Secret."
• McDaniel v. Brown: Prosecutorial and Expert Misstatements of Probabilities Do Not Justify Postconviction Relief -- At Least Not Here and Not Now: The Supreme Court's encounter with the transposition fallacy in McDaniel v. Brown.
• Another Expert Succumbs to the Transposition Fallacy: Dubious advice for lawyers in Dealing with DNA Evidence: A Legal Guide (London: Routledge-Cavendish 2007).
• An Open Letter to the Arizona Forensic Services Advisory Committee: A state crime laboratory director defends business as usual after the NAS report on Strengthening Forensic Science in the United States.
• The Spin Doctors: Parts of the forensic science establishment respond to the NAS report with various forms of denial.
• Just the Facts, Ma'am: Reflections on the American Association of Forensic Science's disdain for "philosophy, psychology, probability theory, statistics, differential equations."
• The Dalian Letters: A BIT Much: Sleazy correspondence with BIT Life Sciences, the intrepid organizers of World Congresses in Dalian, China.

In addition, the defunct Science & Law blog on the Law Professors' Blog Network has some good information. The archived material is in the right-hand column.