White House science council: Bite-mark matching is junk scienceRead More
Bite Mark
White House Report Concludes that Bite-Mark Analysis is Junk Science
PCAST Report
The 2016 President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology Report concluded that “bitemark analysis does not meet scientific standards for foundational validity, and is far from meeting such standards. To the contrary, available scientific evidence strongly suggests that examiners cannot consistently agree on whether an injury is a human bitemark and cannot identify the …