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AyaK 10426 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Playboy Centerfold"
07-26-13, 07:38 PM (EST)
345. "RE: The Trayvon Martin shooting."
For the most part, I decided to sit this thread out once the trial started. But from my viewpoint, the debate over the scientific evidence was the most significant part of the trial.
After a number of high-profile but ridiculous verdicts beased on fanciful "scientific testimony" (best exemplified by the "link" between silicone breast implants and autoimmune disease -- despite the fact that autoimmune disease occurred in similar proportions among women who HAD silicone breast implants and women who DID BOT HAVE silicone breast implants), the federal courts adopted a new standard for the admission of scientific testimony, referred to as the Daubert standard. The Daubert standard basically required that scientific information introduced in expert testimony had to be falsifiable and backed by established scientific research, not just a theory of a paid partisan.
For years in fiction, from James Bond to science fiction, we've seen people get admission into locked rooms by saying their names and having their voices recognized by a computer. But it's not true and has never been true. "Voice print recognition" is one of the absolute hardest areas of scientific advancement. (I have a friend who is a research scientist at Nuance, the company that makes Dragon voice-recognition software for computers, who would totally agree with that statement.) Under current technology, the idea that someone could definitively identify a speaker based on a small voice sample taken under stress is simply preposterous, which is what the court ultimately concluded (even though Florida has never officially adopted the Daubert standard).
Frankly, once the judge agreed to keep the pseudoscience out, I expected nothing other than the result that the jury reached.
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