As courts bash sound science and generate questionable decisions, an old cry for constituting “science courts” has been revived. Ethical dilemmas created by scientific advances also cry for resolution ...

Correction & clarification: A prior version of this column misstated the cases of Josh Burns in Michigan and Andrew Roark in Texas. Anyone who has watched an episode of "Law & Order" knows that ...

In 2022, Wellcome Connecting Science, a genomic science program funded by the Wellcome Trust, organized a citizens’ jury to ask whether the U.K. government should allow scientists to edit the DNA of ...

Imagine being summoned as a juror in a murder trial. The expert responsible for analyzing DNA traces at the crime scene has just explained that they match the defendant's profile. "Then the culprit ...

Arthur Kantrowitz has been an articulate proponent of creating a science court designed to improve such decision making. The court would weigh scientific data pertaining to an issue apart from its ...

Junk science admitted during trial continues to undermine our judicial system, unfairly affecting individual parties, consumers and industries. When judges allow flawed evidence to corrupt verdicts, ...