Between The Traditionally Contentious Professions Author: FRANKLIN HOKE, pp.1
Date: June 27,1994
| Cooperative efforts seek to develop bases for agreement and a vocabulary to be shared by two influential cultures |
| Editor's Note: This second part of a two-part series looks at several ongoing efforts aimed at establishing better communication between the scientific and legal professions. With court cases increasingly relying on sophisticated scientific evidence, the importance of such cooperative efforts is growing. The first part of this series, which appeared in the June 13 issue, explored some of the questions concerning the admissibility of scientific evidence raised in a landmark liability case heard by the Supreme Court last year.
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The cultures of science and law both seek their own versions of truth. But their purposes differ in important ways, as do their methods. Partly as a result, interactions between the two historically have been fraught with misunderstandings and, at times, ...
