OpinionMay 25, 2022
The Field of Firearms Forensics Is Flawed
The matching of bullets to guns is subjective, and courts are starting to question it because of testimony from scientific experts
Stories by Thomas D. Albright
Thomas D. Albright holds the Conrad T. Prebys Chair in Vision Research at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, where he is a professor and director of the Vision Center Laboratory. Albright co-chaired the National Academy of Sciences committee on eyewitness identification, served on the National Commission on Forensic Science and is currently on the Human Factors Committee of the NIST Organization of Scientific Area Committees for Forensic Science.
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