Re:Texas death row inmate at mercy of Supreme Court – and ju...
by riffraff on Sunday September 24, 2023 @09:53AM
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I'm afraid the whole field of medicine moves forward by screw ups and fixes, and as such forensics are just another place.
In "Factfulness" the late Hans Rosling mentions how he spent years telling people to not keep babies sleeping on their back, based on science were people believed babies might suffocate more easily.
This turned out to be the opposite of truth, babies are more likely to die when sleeping on their belly. For years, doctors , him included, may have indirectly killed babies trying to save them.
OTOH, the unreliability of our tools makes a strong case against the death penalty, IMO.
In "Factfulness" the late Hans Rosling mentions how he spent years telling people to not keep babies sleeping on their back, based on science were people believed babies might suffocate more easily.
This turned out to be the opposite of truth, babies are more likely to die when sleeping on their belly. For years, doctors , him included, may have indirectly killed babies trying to save them.
OTOH, the unreliability of our tools makes a strong case against the death penalty, IMO.