Forensic podiatry pseudoscience?

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Forensic Pseudoscience
The Unheralded Crisis of Criminal Justice

Much forensic knowledge has thus developed by means unlike that of ordinary scientific research. Comparatively few major universities offer programs in forensic science; joint training in forensic sciences and policing is common. Forensic laboratories themselves are a disparate patchwork of public and private entities, with varying degrees of affiliation with police and prosecutors. The accountability of some subfields such as “forensic podiatry” (the study of footprints, gait, and other foot-related evidence) can be dubious, with judges taking the place of accreditation boards. In such a decentralized system, it can be difficult to keep track not only of whether forensic investigation is working well but also of how it even works in the first place.
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Nobody can state with certainty the degree of pseudoscience that clogs the American courts. But even if forensic science largely faces a “bad apples” problem, it may still be in bad shape. As legal scholar and forensic science specialist Daniel Medwed notes, “An absence of careful oversight can allow rogue scientists to flourish.” Even if there is no reason to doubt forensic podiatry itself, there might still be good reason to doubt forensic podiatrists. The localized, disparate, and unmonitored nature of so much forensic practice makes for massive nationwide inconsistency.
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