It&#x27;s a travesty that the forensics lab works as an ally and partner to police and prosecution. Way too many perverse incentives to go off into the weeds on pseudoscience and bad science and, as we had in Massachusetts, outright fraud. Forensics labs should be blind to the cases they are working on, and should be sent QA samples unrelated to cases to measure their error rate, and have no direct communication with law enforcement and prosecutors.