FORGET “BALLISTIC FINGERPRINTING” — TalkLeft reports that ordinary courtroom bullet-matching isn’t what it’s cracked up to be. I remember a lawyer telling me 20 years ago that he always challenged scientific evidence, and that even where the FBI lab was concerned, independent experts got different answers about half the time.

This seems to be a problem with “forensic science” in general. Hair, fiber, polygraphs, etc., all turn out to be rather more forensic than science.