Debunking Junk Science as Criminal Evidence

In episode #248, the Innocence Project's M. Chris Fabricant chats with Trey Elling about JUNK SCIENCE AND THE AMERICAN CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM. Topics include:
0:00 Intro
2:22 The birth of junk science as a jury-swaying courtroom tool
10:33 'Peer reviewed' as a misunderstood term regarding science
19:55 An early 1990s US Supreme Court case favoring Dow Pharmaceuticals helping with the awakening on junk science
26:14 The challenge of swaying those whose careers have been built on a belief in junk science
29:38 The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) uncovering major flaws with the most popular forensic sciences in 2006
35:56 Debunking the uniqueness and certainty of fingerprints
42:59 How it went when the NAS revealed its findings at the annual American Academy of Forensic Science meeting in 2009
47:32 Michael West as an especially belligerent example of dental junk science
52:28 Unindicted co-ejaculator theories
55:00 The importance of Steven Mark Chaney's story