Your statements and opinions must be backed up
by valid scientific evidence and data from recognized field experts, and your conclusions must point to additional work that might be warranted or new questions and issues that may arise as technology does.
Not exact matches
So unless you can provide
evidence backed
by the
scientific method, you have no
valid argument.
Regardless of the type of legal proceeding or which side uses
scientific evidence, the forensic scientist must be able to write a report and testify under oath about: what facts or items of
evidence were analyzed or tested; what tests or analyses were used; how
valid or reliable those tests or analyses have been found to be
by other courts; why and how the forensic scientist was qualified to conduct those tests or analyses; and, what the results of the tests or analyses were and how those results are relevant to the issues in dispute.
The main thesis that «
valid scientific questions were suppressed» is grave, but it is both implausible and unsupported
by any
evidence.
It appears from your uninformative reason why my comment didn't «comport» to your very dodgy Comments Policy, that in your mind, when you say; «a paper from years ago», that you are now saying that
valid scientific evidence backed up
by the Earth Sciences department at Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, The American Geophysical Union & Harvard University has a shelf life and if it exceeds a certain time frame it is deemed invalid.
The
scientific issue is then whether these are
valid proxies — and this is an issue that is not settled
by Rule N, but one that requires
scientific evidence.
One such case is Don Easterbrook, whose testimony in front of a Washington State Committee in March 2013 so distorted the
scientific facts that most of the members of his department (WWU geology) wrote a public letter, saying» [his views] are neither scientifically
valid nor supported
by the overwhelming preponderance of
evidence on the topic».