How impossible courtroom testimony comes to be: the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment Laboratory case study

How impossible courtroom testimony comes to be: the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment Laboratory case study

On June 18, 2013, in Chemistry, Equipment, Ethics, Ethics: Scientist, GC-FID & GC/MS, Lab Scandals & Failures, by Justin J. McShane

Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment Laboratory crisis that concerns blood ethanol content by HS-GC-FID teaches us yet again the critical role that education plays in the training of analysts. People in the laboratory are just taught to press buttons and preform tasks. They are not experts. Anyone who has been in a courtroom […]