Scientific experts are prone to bias, overestimate their certainty and government systems are not good at adjusting to new science.
Those admonitions come from Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor in a statement addressing the Supreme Court’s refusal to hear the case of Charles C. McCrory v. Alabama. In the piece, Sotomayor asks what courts should do when faced with convictions “resting on science that has now been wholly discredited?”
The question offer lessons for how government and politicians should apply science and technology with humility and flexibility.
These could easily be applied...
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