Scientific Evidence FORUM ARCHIVE
Overview coming soon...
More about a Key Source in that WaPo Story on BPA By Carter Wood, 04-27-2008 Recent opinion roundup By Ted Frank, 04-09-2008 Georgia high court upholds expert witness rules By Walter Olson, 03-14-2008 Plaintiffs' requests for expert evidence exclusion, cont'd By Walter Olson, 03-14-2008 AP: "Carpal tunnel cases are plummeting" By Walter Olson, 03-06-2008 Expert evidence standards help plaintiffs, too By Ted Frank, 03-05-2008 Correction: Thomas Baldwin testimony By Ted Frank, 01-07-2008 Maryland court rejects experts in thimerosal case By Walter Olson, 12-31-2007 "I think my daughter’s high school science fair projects are more scientific than this....” By Walter Olson, 11-28-2007 Florida Supreme Court Welcomes Junk Science By David Bernstein, 11-25-2007 Georgia's Daubert reforms under challenge By Walter Olson, 11-20-2007 An asbestos expert's Beaumont background By Walter Olson, 10-17-2007 "Defendants See a Case of Diagnosing for Dollars" By Ted Frank, 10-01-2007 Another thimerosal-vindicating study By Walter Olson, 09-28-2007 Autism from nasal spray? By Walter Olson, 09-10-2007 "Reasonable degree of medical certainty" By Walter Olson, 07-22-2007 The sirens of expert partisanship By Walter Olson, 07-03-2007 Slate on vaccines and autism By Walter Olson, 07-01-2007 The scrupulous expert witness By Walter Olson, 06-20-2007 "Electrical sensitivity" syndrome By Walter Olson, 05-21-2007 Silicosis doc surrenders license By Walter Olson, 04-27-2007 Reasons to be Skeptical of Civil Juries By David Bernstein, 04-19-2007 "Whiplash and other useful illnesses" By Walter Olson, 04-15-2007 April 23: "Expert Witnesses, Adversarial Bias, and the (Partial) Failure of the Daubert Revolution" By Ted Frank, 04-13-2007 ALI tries to lower bar for scientific evidence By Ted Frank, 04-12-2007 "Well…what do you want me to say here?" By Walter Olson, 04-12-2007 Contingent-fee experts? By Ted Frank, 04-09-2007 Bogus experts, cont'd By Walter Olson, 04-06-2007 People v. Ramirez By Ted Frank, 03-31-2007 Bogus experts By Walter Olson, 03-26-2007 "Disparities Between Asbestosis and Silicosis Claims Generated By Litigation Screenings and Clinical Studies" By Ted Frank, 03-16-2007 About that "war on science" By Walter Olson, 02-20-2007 Bernstein, "(Partial) Failure of the Daubert Revolution" By Walter Olson, 02-19-2007 Dodging Daubert By Walter Olson, 02-04-2007 Bogus scientist "bought Ph.D. on Internet" By Walter Olson, 01-19-2007 "The impact of litigation on neurologic research" By Ted Frank, 01-10-2007 "MMR doctor given legal aid thousands" By Walter Olson, 01-04-2007 Cell phones won't give you cancer By Walter Olson, 12-08-2006 Drop that cigarette! There's polonium in it! By Walter Olson, 12-05-2006 "FDA ends ban on silicone breast implants" By Walter Olson, 11-20-2006 Panic! Chemicals frying kids' brains! By Walter Olson, 11-20-2006 Fallacies in Toxicology: cancer equivocation By Ted Frank, 11-11-2006 Update: Roy Meadow By Ted Frank, 10-27-2006 More on the Fraser mold decision By Ted Frank, 10-19-2006 Causes of autism By Walter Olson, 10-18-2006 "Court Rebuffs a Suit Linking Mold to Illness" By Walter Olson, 10-17-2006 The difference Daubert makes By Walter Olson, 10-10-2006 Post-traumatic stress disorder after fender-bender... By Michael Krauss, 10-05-2006 "Quackspertise" By Ted Frank, 10-01-2006 Arsenic-in-chicken-feed suit By Walter Olson, 09-26-2006 "Judicial gullibility" By Ted Frank, 09-05-2006 First federal plaintiffs' Vioxx verdict; Humeston verdict thrown out? By Ted Frank, 08-17-2006 "Public health's credibility crisis" By Walter Olson, 07-21-2006 Another setback for testimonial peer review By Walter Olson, 07-17-2006 Daubert ruling torpedoes thimerosal suit By Walter Olson, 07-15-2006 Two-Fer: Peer Review Discovery and Memorial Damages By Bill Childs, 06-29-2006 Watch the sleight of hand By Ted Frank, 06-28-2006 Tort Reform For Liberals: Judges Who Know A Little More By Bill Childs, 06-27-2006 Empirical data and medical malpractice By Ted Frank, 06-18-2006 After UK vaccine panic, charges of misconduct By Walter Olson, 06-14-2006 Squashing testimonial peer review? By Walter Olson, 06-13-2006 "Expert witness industry booming" By Walter Olson, 05-17-2006 Blawg Review #56: Sex, Virtual Weddings, and Baseball By James R. Copland, 05-08-2006 More on FRE 702: By David Bernstein, 05-07-2006 Courts Ignoring Federal Rule of Evidence 702: By David Bernstein, 05-06-2006 New York court relaxes Frye test for junk science testimony By Ted Frank, 05-04-2006 Litigation-driven studies By Walter Olson, 04-16-2006 Merck loses in McDarby case By James R. Copland, 04-05-2006 Update: Sir Roy Meadow reinstated By Walter Olson, 03-05-2006 "This plaintiff's hired gun blew up in their faces" By Walter Olson, 03-04-2006 Australian cerebral palsy study implicates viruses By Walter Olson, 02-01-2006 Medical societies trying to sanction errant experts? Book 'em By Walter Olson, 01-26-2006 Keeping "B-readers" honest By Walter Olson, 01-24-2006 Being an ethical expert witness By Walter Olson, 01-10-2006 Memorializing "remarkable" medical testimony By Walter Olson, 01-03-2006 Expert medical witnesses By Walter Olson, 12-18-2005 "Neurologists Take a Stand on Bearing Witness" By Walter Olson, 12-14-2005 Welding: Boren loses; Dewey Morgan caught lying By Ted Frank, 12-09-2005 Plunkett v. Merck: Do I owe Lucchesi an apology? By Ted Frank, 12-02-2005 A pathologist recoils... By Walter Olson, 12-02-2005 Codifying Daubert By Walter Olson, 12-01-2005 Federal Daubert rulings on Plunkett v. Merck By Ted Frank, 11-23-2005 Welding lawsuit in Madison County: manganese and Parkinson's By Ted Frank, 11-21-2005 Daubert hearing at MDL By Ted Frank, 11-15-2005 Lawprof blogs proliferate By Walter Olson, 11-09-2005 Daubert and FRE 702: By David Bernstein, 11-03-2005 Neutral experts in Chattanooga By Ted Frank, 10-27-2005 When government trashes science By Walter Olson, 10-26-2005 Australia: "Professional witnesses face curbs" By Walter Olson, 10-17-2005 Washington Post on Vioxx Litigation By David Bernstein, 09-16-2005 Oz judge scolds a malleable expert By Walter Olson, 09-11-2005 Laminack: clients didn't have asbestosis after all By Walter Olson, 09-07-2005 Juries and DNA evidence By Walter Olson, 09-02-2005 What next for Merck? By Walter Olson, 09-01-2005 Epstein on Ernst v. Merck By James R. Copland, 08-22-2005 Learning the Wrong Lessons from "An American Tragedy" By David Bernstein, 08-08-2005 U.K. expert testimony, cont'd By Walter Olson, 08-03-2005 Lying with Statistics - Ernst v. Merck edition By Ted Frank, 07-29-2005 UK pediatrician faces professional sanctions for bogus expert testimony By Ted Frank, 06-29-2005 A Day Late and a Dollar Short on Bendectin: By David Bernstein, 06-28-2005 Trial Lawyers Try to Open Up Michigan for Vioxx Suits By Jonathan B. Wilson, 06-22-2005 Georgia experts, cont'd By Walter Olson, 06-07-2005 Prosecution-side expert testimony By Walter Olson, 06-03-2005 Flaws in Georgia liability reform By Walter Olson, 06-02-2005 Expert admissibility motions By Walter Olson, 06-01-2005 Out-of-state experts By Walter Olson, 05-25-2005 N.J. bans "retaliating" against expert witnesses By Walter Olson, 05-18-2005 "Pathological science" By Walter Olson, 04-23-2005 "Stupid-Syndrome Syndrome" By Ted Frank, 04-07-2005 Science and juries -- a UK report By Walter Olson, 04-05-2005 White wall of silence? By Walter Olson, 03-31-2005 Daubert and ephedra By Walter Olson, 03-15-2005 Fen-Phen Follies By James R. Copland, 03-01-2005 Agent Orange is back... By James R. Copland, 02-28-2005 Post hoc ergo propter hoc By Walter Olson, 02-08-2005 Daubert's reception in the states By Walter Olson, 01-29-2005 Daubert's detractors By Walter Olson, 01-21-2005 AMA wants expert reform By Walter Olson, 01-04-2005 Silica castle erodes suddenly By Walter Olson, 12-21-2004 Gladwell on mammography By Walter Olson, 12-14-2004 Gulf War Syndrome: a stacked panel? By Walter Olson, 12-13-2004 Federal vaccine compensation By Walter Olson, 12-02-2004 Expert witness fined $20K By Walter Olson, 11-23-2004 Around the medblogs By Walter Olson, 11-01-2004 Outcomes affect expert testimony By Ted Frank, 10-18-2004 "Should a right of action be recognized for expert malpractice?" By Ted Frank, 10-18-2004 The overrated Sherlock Holmes By Walter Olson, 10-06-2004 Anonymous experts: a reader writes By Walter Olson, 10-05-2004 Anonymous medical experts, cont'd By Walter Olson, 10-04-2004 Beldar on the uses of experts By Walter Olson, 09-20-2004 Bare ruined choirs, where late the expert sang By Walter Olson, 09-06-2004 Junk science in asbestos litigation By James R. Copland, 08-17-2004 When Junk Law Meets Junk Science By Michael Krauss, 08-03-2004 Anonymous experts By Walter Olson, 07-26-2004 Kerry taps Edwards -- has Trial Lawyers, Inc. entered the race? By James R. Copland, 07-06-2004 More on Chein v. Shumsky By Walter Olson, 06-30-2004 Another State rejects Daubert By David Bernstein, 06-28-2004 Expert witness beats perjury rap By Walter Olson, 06-28-2004 Expert testimony and abortion bans By Walter Olson, 06-09-2004 The phantom risk of "toxic" mold By James R. Copland, 06-08-2004 "Gulf war syndrome: the legal case collapses" By Walter Olson, 05-18-2004 Vaccines, cont'd By Walter Olson, 05-16-2004 Rx: Hired-gun control By Walter Olson, 05-13-2004 Expert batting averages By Ted Frank, 05-13-2004
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