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Here’s what ProPublica has learned about how junk forensic science spreads throughout the criminal justice system.

From his basement in upstate New York, Herbert MacDonell launched modern bloodstain-pattern analysis, persuading judge after judge of its reliability. Then he trained hundreds of others. But what if they’re getting it wrong?

The legal tactic, called parental alienation syndrome, is applied in family court when it is believed that the child’s preferred parent has indoctrinated the child into rejecting the other by

I grew up in the golden age of forensic science, at a time when expert witnesses were becoming celebs, each with their special little area of crimebusting know-how. The papers were full of excited talk about hair microscopy, ballistics and fibre analysis. Crime scene investigators were hot as pop stars. My brother and I had