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Recent articles and books by Pamela Colloff and Radley Balko highlight the dangers of junk science, and how overstating expertise and qualifications can lead to wrongful convictions. But Ralph Ristenbatt, a forensic science professor at Penn State University and one of my instructors at John Jay , urged a different way of thinking about these older, supposedly debunked analyses , one that moves away from the broader cultural idea that such forensic techniques are unequivocally wrong.

Bite marks are still an incredibly powerful tool. There is nothing wrong with hair analysis. Now when you have a DNA technician looking at hair, they just cut it in a tube. They confuse medical examiners, who are licensed pathologists, with coroners, who are elected officials and can have any background, even nonmedical ones.

They reach for outrage when a more measured reporting approach is more accurate. Sekedat described an example of this communication gap. Sekedat and Faber thought the interview [which quoted Faber only] had gone well, but in their view, the resulting piece was a different story. We crave narrative, order from chaos, a mystery solved, good guys winning out over the bad ones. But science, and forensic science, should be more neutral, and thus more nuanced. The true crime that gets it right, like the investigative podcast In the Dark from APM Reports, burrow deeply into the messiness of the criminal-justice system, letting the egregiousness — and the bad science — speak for itself, so that the outrage is earned, and can be acted on, not stoked and manipulated.

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