&gt; jurors who, not unreasonably, believed that scientists in white coats knew what they were talking about<p>I don&#x27;t think I agree with the &quot;not unreasonably&quot; part.  At what point do we as a society expect more from jurors?  Ask yourself: If you or one of your close friends is called to be on a jury, do you think you&#x27;ll just take some song-and-dance at face value without carefully weighing the ostensible expertise of each witness?<p>Rather, it seems to me that the process of juror selection has become so obtuse - yet so routine - that critical jurors who might lead the jury away from swallowing this kind of hogwash are filtered out before the case makes it to trial.<p>&gt; There were no scientifically accepted standards for forensic testing, yet FBI experts routinely and almost unvaryingly testified, according to the Post, “to the near-certainty of ‘matches’ of crime-scene hairs to defendants, backing their claims by citing incomplete or misleading statistics drawn from their case work.”<p>...and nobody questioned this?  No defense attorney or jury foreperson over the years brought any serious attention to this?  <i>That&#x27;s</i> the broken part.<p>That the government will lie is to be expected and is part of the nature of government.  That people will unflinchingly proceed as though its lies are actually veracious and sober elements of a criminal trial - this is fixable.<p>&gt; There is no lack of good ideas for reform. (Journalist Radley Balko and Roger Koppl, a professor of finance at Syracuse University’s Whitman School of Management and a fellow at Syracuse’s Forensic and National Security Sciences Institute, offered up a laundry list of fixes in Slate—almost seven years ago.)* These solutions are not all that expensive or complicated. Among them: giving defendants their own forensic experts, untethering crime labs from the prosecutors and cops to which they now answer, verification and standards.<p>Radley has been so tireless in his reporting.  Glad to see his work mentioned here.  He&#x27;s a true hacker and a great speaker and researcher.  The recommendations mentioned here are so obvious and so easy that it&#x27;s unthinkable that the failure to implement them is attributable to anything but the desire to continue to convict, truth be damned.