Wednesday, December 20, 2006

The Manufacture of Doubt

An Australian man is accused of infecting his sexual partners with the HIV virus.

In his defense, he has called a medical engineer from a Perth hospital to testify that HIV doesn't exist.

posted by pn at 10:57 AM  

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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.