Tuesday, July 08, 2003

Nah!

What if we had demanded peer-reviewed, well-tested, generally accepted intelligence, with a known rate of error and standards governing its application, before invading Iraq?

Oh, wait. That was just a war -- not nearly so dangerous as a lawsuit.

posted by pn at 8:09 AM  

Fed. R. Evid. 702: If scientific, technical, or other specialized knowledge will assist the trier of fact to understand the evidence or to determine a fact in issue, a witness qualified as an expert by knowledge, skill, experience, training, or education, may testify thereto in the form of an opinion or otherwise, if (1) the testimony is based upon sufficient facts or data, (2) the testimony is the product of reliable principles and methods, and (3) the witness has applied the principles and methods reliably to the facts of the case.