There is one thing that all troubling forensic techniques have in common: They’re all based on the idea that patterns, or impressions, are unique and can be matched to the thing, or person, who made them. But the validity of this premise has not been subjected to rigorous scientific inquiry. “The forensic science community has had little opportunity to pursue or become proficient in the research that is needed to support what it does,” the NAS report said.

Nonetheless, courts routinely allow forensic practitioners to testify in front of jurors, anointing them “experts” in these pattern-matching fields — together dubbed forensic “sciences” despite the lack of evidence to support that — based only on their individual, practical experience. These witnesses, who are largely presented as learned and unbiased arbiters of truth, can hold great sway with jurors whose expectations are often that real life mimics the television crime lab or police procedural.

But that is not the case, as the first results from the FBI hair evidence review clearly show. And given the conclusions of the NAS report, future results are not likely to improve. What’s more, if other pattern-matching disciplines were subjected to the same scrutiny as hair analysis, there is no reason to think the results would be any better. For some disciplines the results could even be worse.

kids can't bring peanut butter to school

Whaaaa....?? Is this for real? They won't let you bring PB to school? How about other peanut products?

As far as I know that rule only applies when you bring, "treats," for the class.

At least it is for my kid's class because he is allergic to peanuts.

Next, you can't be a peanut butter eater, and qualify to go to school.

Why ?

Because, if you cut loose a peanut butter fart in class, you could kill off most of your classmates.

Education gas chamber.

Rumored to be part of jade Helm population control before the FEMA soap making camps.