Science Thursday

Opinion pieces in Pennsylvania and Texas newspapers comment on forensic science. Here’s this week’s round up of science news:

 

The Houston Chronicle urges labs in the area to unite to

share laboratory expenses

and to find ways to insulate the lab from conflicts.

 

An opinion piece in the Point Park Globe names cases where arson science is disputed and

urges courts to thoroughly investigate arson cases

.

 

In an opinion piece, Rick Casey of the San Antonio Express-News advocates that

science, not prosecutors or police

, be the customer of forensic science.