Word: dna
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...National Research Council (NRC), an arm of the National Academy of Sciences, published a report in 1992 on "DNA Technology in Forensic Science." The report developed a technique of interpretation called the "ceiling principle...
...what Lewontin and Hartl see as "an attempt to nullify" their analysis, Daniel E. Koshland, Jr., editor-in-chief of Science, wrote in a recent editorial: "Acceptance of the validity of DNA evidence is exactly what most scientists in this area have believed appropriate...
Koshland says the judicial process has been "so slow to accept DNA evidence by failing to see that a couple of outspoken individuals were less representative of the scientific community than the vast majority of careful scholars...
This is the precedent that the Massachusetts courts used to deny admittance of DNA evidence in Commonwealth vs. Lonigan and Commonwealth vs. Daggett...
Recently, however, the Massachusetts Supreme Court has overturned lower courts' decisions and accepted DNA evidence...