Abstract
The law and science of traumatic cancer and cerebral palsy are discussed in the context of rules of evidence that are concerned with the testimony of medical experts in court. An evidentiary fallacy is demonstrated using the scientific expertise of the scientist Galileo as an example.
Citation
Peter Huber,
Medical Experts and the Ghost of Galileo,
54 Law and Contemporary Problems
119-169
(Summer 1991)
Available at: https://scholarship.law.duke.edu/lcp/vol54/iss3/8
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