
PolicyMay 8, 2017
We Must Strengthen the "Science" in Forensic Science
A national commission created to improve the reliability of forensics has been dealt a possibly fatal blow
M. Bonner Denton, Ph.D., is Galileo Professor of Chemistry & Professor of Geosciences at the University of Arizona. He has made numerous contributions to the field of chemical analysis as well as forensic science and has served on the National Academy of Sciences Committees on the Assessment of Bullet Lead Elemental Composition Comparison and the Committee on Identifying the Needs of the Forensic Science Community.

We Must Strengthen the "Science" in Forensic Science
A national commission created to improve the reliability of forensics has been dealt a possibly fatal blow