In the decades since the Davis trial, science-based research has shown how unreliable and easily manipulated witness identification can be.
With certain exceptions (like clinical trials) science rarely works that way.
The trigger for the unusually harsh public critiques of the field came last fall, when an AIDS vaccine that many considered the best prospect in development bombed in large clinical trials (Science, 16 November 2007, p. 1048).
Her extracurricular activities include the tennis team, the French club, the film club, mock trial and science olympiad.
"It wasn't a trial against science; it was a trial against those who didn't know how to evaluate the risk, who didn't know to mitigate the risk.
But while politicians and the press have spent the year focusing on accusations of lax government oversight and shoddily run clinical trials, the science of gene therapy has been making quiet, steady progress.
The changes are unveiled as rival exam board, Edexcel, said 20,000 pupils in 400 schools would take part in trials of science and maths mock tests ahead of taking their GCSEs this summer.
At the time of the Nuremberg trials, medical science was very different than it is now.
Recommendation (5) RECORD (publish) the results of all animal trials in science journals regardless of whether the outcomes are positive, negative or null.
Currently researched models of care often do not match the reality of primary care and so alternative methodologies, such as practice-based research networks, pragmatic trials, systems science, and longer-term observational studies that include patient-reported outcomes, should be considered.
As it is presented at trial, even normal science is integrated into an advocacy narrative and becomes unmoored from the discourse of science as practiced outside the litigation context.
