“We Can’t Trust Forensic Science”

So much for the mystique of CSI:

http://www.realclearscience.com/articles/2016/12/08/we_cant_trust_forensic_science_110121.html

I remember, years ago, talking with a friend — a Ph.D. in biochemistry — who runs a major federal laboratory near Washington DC dedicated to forensic DNA studies and who has literally “written the book” on the subject.  He was amused by the panoply of apparent Nobel Prize nominees who populate those CSI series, and by the lavishness of the labs in which they work.