On 30/04/2013 17:39, tim...... wrote:

The history of such experts in court suggest that this faith is misplaced


I suspect that you'll find that the vast majority of experts may be
correct. There is, however, a probability that they may be wrong (and
that's only when we hear about them in the news).

In the same way judges and juries may be.

Which is presumably why appeals and retrials, and multiple independent
expert witnesses are the order of the day!

Rather like tossing that biased coin multiple times, no?

Michael