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- This is Scientific American — 60-Second Science. I'm Steve Mirsky.
- 这里是科学美国人——60秒科学。我是史蒂夫·米尔斯基。
- "We have increasing doubts about this evidence,
- “虽然我们对这种证据的怀疑越来越多，
- but we don't feel yet that we have the scientific knowledge and basis to exclude it altogether."
- 但是我们认为，目前我们还没有能完全排除这种证据的科学知识和原理。”
- Jed Rakoff, United States District Judge for the Southern District of New York.
- 杰德·拉科夫是纽约南区法院的美国地区法官。
- He spoke about forensic evidence—and the need for it to actually be based in science—
- 他就法庭证据及其基于科学的需要发表了讲话，
- at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Boston on February 18th.
- 这段讲话发表在2月18日美国波士顿科学促进会的年度会议上。
- In 2009 the National Academy of Sciences issued a report critical of a lot of the forensic evidence in the courtroom.
- 2009年，美国国家科学院发表了一份报告，对法庭上的大量法庭证据进行了批评。
- "Most fundamentally...the report said that what was really lacking was testing and research.
- “最根本的是，报告指出，法庭证据缺少测试和研究。
- And thus they questioned whether any of this could be called science and they also questioned whether it was really that accurate...
- 因此，他们质疑这些证据是否可以称为科学、是否准确。
- But forensic evidence is still widely admitted, even when the science behind it may be lacking.
- 但是法庭证据仍被广泛承认，即使其可能缺少科学根据。
- I think courts continue, despite their doubts, to admit this evidence...
- 我认为，虽然存在质疑，但是法庭仍会继续承认这些证据，
- and that is still the feeling...that, eh, it's still better than nothing, it's still useful evidence,
- 现在人们依然认为，有证据总比没有强，他们依然认为这些是有用的证据，
- it has some degree of objectivity that's not present in much lay testimony.
- 存在某种程度的客观性，而这种客观性是大部分非专业证词所缺少的。
- And therefore it is useful.
- 所以这种证据是有用的。
- The problem of course is it comes heralded as science, and that gives it a weight that is probably disproportionate.
- 当然，问题在于法庭证词被视为科学，同时被赋予了可能并不恰当的重要性。
- I had a case, this was before the National Academy report,
- 在美国国家科学院的报告发表以前，我接触过一个案子，
- but it's sort of illustrative of what I'm talking about...United States versus Glynn.
- 这个案子可以说明我现在在谈论的情况，这个案子就是美国政府诉格林案。
- In that case, the government put on a tool-mark expert
- 在那个案子中，美国政府派了一名工具痕迹专家来证实，
- to testify that the markings on the shell that had been found at the scene of the crime
- 在犯罪现场发现的弹壳上的痕迹
- matched the markings inside the barrel of the gun that had been found under the defendant's bed...
- 与被告床下枪筒内的痕迹一致。
- and I asked him, for example, what's your error rate and what's the error rate of this methodology that you're using.
- 我问了那名专家几个问题，比如，你的错误率是多少，你现在所使用方法的错误率是多少？
- And he said zero. And I said zero? And he said yes.
- 他回答说错误率为零。我又问他，错误率是零？他说是零。
- And I said how can it be zero. And he said well, in every case I've testified, the guy's been convicted."
- 我说，怎么可能是零呢？他说他作证的每件案子，被告都被定罪了。”
- Thanks for the minute for Scientific American — 60-Second Science Science. I'm Steve Mirsky.
- 谢谢大家收听科学美国人——60秒科学。我是史蒂夫·米尔斯基。
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testi＝testify（v 证明；作证），mony－证言
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district
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evidence
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e出+vid看+ence→[明显的证据]证据，证人
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association
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单词association 联想记忆：
as加强＋soc社会+ion→社团；联合
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academy
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exclude
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ex出，clude关闭－关出去－排斥
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objectivity
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inquiry
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