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…more about ‘bad science’ and miscarriages of justice. Lucia de Berk was the subject of a Dutch trial where prosecutors used certain statistics [there's more links to discussion of statistical evidence in the BS post I've linked to here] as evidence against her.

Operational Hazard Whether routine, like a tonsillectomy, or major, like a kidney transplant, surgery always poses a hazard for the patient. But those performing or assisting in the operation may also be taking a risk. A study released last week by the American Society... Cancer 0

There is a perception that circumstantial evidence is inferior to direct evidence. That perception is wrong but its articulation often conceals a deeper problem; the ability to understand the relationship of one fact to another fact is a variable and is dependent on the discovery of that factual

A story on the The Age web site about a potentially tragic house fire in Point Cook had me thinking either Victoria Police detectives are highly disciplined and never jump to conclusions, or they’re a bit slow to put two and two together. Police are investigating two suspicious fires in Melbourne’s west overnight.