Lawyers beware! The scientific process, peer review, and the use of papers in evidence.
"Legal authorities have clearly been trying to deal with these problems by specifying how courts should use scientific evidence, which it seems is often a single paper which has been peer reviewed and published, but which possibly still has weaknesses which will emerge in the ongoing debate that Lex Burdorf refers to. As discussed by Ogden (2009), this has been putting pressure on journals like ours, as we provide a mechanism for peer-reviewed publication and a forum for part of the debate.
Almost all the cases we hear about occur in the USA, and this is partly because US Federal Courts have the most detailed codification of the use of scientific evidence. Federal Rule of Evidence 702 (
Cornell, 2008a) deals with this."
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