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August 14, 2008cognitive science, criminal verdicts, csi, episteme, epistemology, Forbes, forensic science, forensics, John Tierney, justice, new york times, Radley Balko, Roger Koppl, social epistemology

Bad science story picked up the NYT

The Roger Koppl story that I’ve been plugging for a few months has been picked up by the New York Times.

August 12, 2008criminal verdicts, csi, epistemology, Forbes, forensics, Radley Balko, Roger Koppl, slate, social epistemology, testimony

Follow up to: What’s Wrong With CSI

Here’s an article in Slate “hot off the press” by Roger Koppl and Radley Balko. It makes for a nice follow up to the earlier Forbes story (and Koppl article) I drew attention to.

August 9, 20081, criminal verdicts, csi, DNA, Economics, episteme, epistemology, evidence, fbi, Forbes, forensic science, forensics, justice, Roger Koppl, social epistemology, testimony

What’s Wrong With CSI

I’ve had several requests to make this recent article available despite it still being freely available on the Forbes site (I know there have been some annoying pop-up advertisement windows.) Anyway, check out Roger’s co-authored article for EPISTEME on this topic: Epistemics for Forensics. Forensic evidence doesn’t always tell the truth. Forensic evidence is foolproof,…

May 25, 2008alvin goldman, criminal verdicts, Dartmouth, episteme, epistemology, forensic science, forensics, forthcoming, social epistemology, sociology, testimony

Testimony conference: abstracts/program

Abstracts and program details for the upcoming Dartmouth conference are now available – see here.

May 15, 2008criminal verdicts, epistemology, Forbes, forensic science, forensics, injustice, justice, Roger Koppl, social epistemology, testimony

Epistemics for Forensics

Roger Koppl has a column on forensics in the latest issue of Forbes. Reason Magazine has also picked up the story. Roger also has an article “Epistemics for Forensics” coming out in the next issue of EPISTEME (5:2). The paper addresses problems of erroneous criminal verdicts that arise from the structure of the relationship between forensic…