Eliza Orlins @elizaorlins.bsky.social · 04/07/2023I want to talk about how junk science ruins innocent lives. The criminal legal system is overwhelmed by junk science. IT IS AN OUTRAGE. If you're not deeply disturbed by what's going on, I need you to pay close attention. Let me explain. 🧵/x 20638264 638
Eliza Orlins @elizaorlins.bsky.social · 04/07/2023Shows like CSI have shaped the way that juries see forensic evidence. There's a myth that this type of evidence is infallible. That is simply untrue and has led to wrongful convictions and even wrongful executions! 2/x 321917 219
Howard Hudson @hwrdhdsn.bsky.social · 31/12/2025Excellent thread and you left out “blood spatter analysis,” which was approved in Oregon under our version of Daubert and then discredited when the defense bar showed it’s nonsense. 010 1
galdireonai.bsky.social @galdireonai.bsky.social · 04/07/2023Reminds me of the time a bunch of police departments enthusiastically embraced actual dowsing rods as drug detectors, because they'd give them as much probable cause as they could ever want. 2110 11
Sheesh @sheesh49.bsky.social · 21/11/2024Well, then, I guess we’ll just have to rely on psychics! 000 0
Thomas Neville @goobermunch.bsky.social · 04/07/2023You had me at criminal legal system is overwhelmed by junk science…. 0200 20
Karl @kaffiend75.bsky.social · 03/02/2026@iwriteok.bsky.socialopen.spotify.comPart One: The Bastards of Forensic Science 000 0
Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 04/07/2023Hmmm this thread looks good though maybe they’re starting to improve the thread formatting. 0290 29
MattBille @mattbille.bsky.social · 06/12/2024Does that suggest we rule out all these types of evidence, or that we need judges to go through forensics courses, appoint more special masters, or something else? 100 1
Natalie Alana Ashton @natalan.bsky.social · 04/07/2023i really want someone to do a *true* true crime podcast where each ep explains a form of junk science and why it's junk, discusses cases where it's been misused, and highlights the problematic incentives in the justice system which mean it keeps being deployed 8829 82
ravent5.bsky.social @ravent5.bsky.social · 30/12/2025Here is John Oliver's take: m.youtube.com/watch?v=ScmJ...m.youtube.comForensic Science: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)YouTube video by LastWeekTonight 030 3
Meidas Paul Wigton 🫘 🇺🇳🇺🇦 @rvroomie.bsky.social · 30/12/2025As an earth systems scientist, and wrt climate science, this topic is near and dear to my evidence-based heart! @skepticalscience.bsky.social 000 0
Jjinandtonic @jjinandtonic.bsky.social · 04/07/2023A lawyer from the Innocence Project has written an excellent book called “Junk science and the American criminal system”. Fantastically written and infuriating to read, highly recommend to anyone wanting to learn more 0202 20
Maaike @maaikeverbruggen.bsky.social · 04/07/2023Such a good thread. For anyone else interested in this and wants to read more on this from an STS perspective, I really like Simon Cole and Gary Edmond and especially one of my academic heroes, Graham Spinardi, who has written a lot on the problems of fire science 051 5
The Hungry Heathen @hungryheathen.bsky.social · 30/12/2025I'm in the middle of @chrisfabricant.bsky.social 's "Junk Science and the American Criminal Justice System"; anyone who was properly horrified by this thread would probably be interested: a.co/d/0nYSAJja.coAmazon.com: Junk Science and the American Criminal Justice System eBook : Fabricant, M. Chris: Kindle StoreAmazon.com: Junk Science and the American Criminal Justice System eBook : Fabricant, M. Chris: Kindle Store 011 1
ann-hedonia @ann-hedonia1.bsky.social · 06/12/2024I recently read that some places are using how a person sounds when they call 911 to get help as evidence of guilt. 030 3
Sophia Florence (Swolephia Arc Pt 2) @sophiaflorence.bsky.social · 30/12/2025God I want to tag my alma mater in this over and over again. 000 0
longballjohnny.bsky.social @longballjohnny.bsky.social · 31/12/2025You left out hair and fiber evidence, which is usually complete bullshit. The FBI used Michael Malone, a charlatan "expert," to identify the scene of Kiki Camarena's murder and also to place Rene Verdugo there. Verdugo served 30 years before the OIG admitted it was bullshit. 000 0
