The New Yorker on the CSI Effect

Jeffrey Toobin has an interesting, if somewhat disappointing, story this week in the New Yorker on the "CSI effect" on forensic science in criminal investigations. Most notable about it is the continued resistance by the courts and the forensic science establishment itself to banning hair and fibre evidence in criminal cases, even though the "science" is what one observer calls "faith-based" and has sent untold numbers of innocent people to prison and occasionally death row. The story isn't online, but hey, if you pick up a hard copy of the magazine, you can also read yet another Obama profile after finishing up with Toobin. ...