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Re: Scientific Certainty: There is no such an animal
Posted by:
J L Mazerat (IP Logged)
Date: October 14, 2022 03:24PM
John:
I wanted to take this time to thank you again. As has happened in the past you express opinions that I might not initially agree with, but it does cause me to research the subject. This is what has taken place with the phrase Reasonable Degree of Scientific Certainty.
My research was not confined to the forensic field but all scientific fields. What I have come to learn is that in the general scientific community there is the belief that there is no such thing as scientific certainty. With new research methods revealing new data everyday there is no way to give any theory a certainty.
Jim Mazerat
Forensic Investigations Group