A chance of justice

David Jones

Nature, 1998, vol. 394, issue 6692, 428-428

Abstract: According to Daedalus, legal verdicts are nothing more than probabilities. What's to say, for example, that people who claim to have been made ill by tobacco wouldn't have become ill anyway? To address such questions, he proposes a scientific court in which cases would be decided by openly statistical verdicts, and there would be differing degrees of guilt or innocence.

Date: 1998
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