Fragments of a blog
Fragments of a blog
It’s hard to argue against Lee Kovarsky‘s position that DNA fingerprinting offers a cognitive method so powerful that no sane person, not even a judge, can honestly ignore all the discoveries made through its application. It’s likewise impossible to accept…
“How do you know?” and “Can you prove it?” are natural reactions to strong claims and far-fetched conjectures, especially when they are passed as universally acknowledged facts. If I were sure that journalists always followed the same principles guiding fact-gathering…
The late US Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia was infamous, among other things, for writing (in Herrera v. Collins, 1993, concurring): There is no basis in text, tradition, or even in contemporary practice (if that were enough), for finding in…