Friday, July 25, 2003

Science and Politics (part 2)

The New York Times reports that the Bush administration has grown avid to coordinate federal research on global climate change. According to administration officials, this will promote "sound science" -- a phrase that will be eerily familiar to veterans of the expert witness wars.

posted by pn at 10:50 AM  

Fed. R. Evid. 702: If scientific, technical, or other specialized knowledge will assist the trier of fact to understand the evidence or to determine a fact in issue, a witness qualified as an expert by knowledge, skill, experience, training, or education, may testify thereto in the form of an opinion or otherwise, if (1) the testimony is based upon sufficient facts or data, (2) the testimony is the product of reliable principles and methods, and (3) the witness has applied the principles and methods reliably to the facts of the case.