• Question: Do you find forensic stuff interesting?

    Asked by chloegriffiths to Douglas, Hugh, Matt, Tom on 23 Jun 2010 in Categories: .
    • Photo: Douglas Blane

      Douglas Blane answered on 23 Jun 2010:

      It’s mostly chemistry with a bit of biology, so a bit beyond a physicist like me.

      The parts of it that do fascinate me are the probabilities you get from DNA evidence, and how wrong even smart lawyers can be about these.

      Yet another reason for getting more science out to more people, I guess, because if judges and juries make mistakes you can get miscarriages of justice.

      Have a search on “prosecutor’s fallacy” to find out more about this.

    • Photo: Matthew Hurley

      Matthew Hurley answered on 23 Jun 2010:

      All of science is a bit like forensic stuff – using the clues (each experiment) to work out what really happens (or in the case of forensic stuff – what happened). CSI is great too.

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