Wednesday, December 29, 2004

New Blog on Public Health Issues

We have stumbled onto Effect Measure -- a public health weblog that apparently debuted in November. It is edited by "senior public health scientists and practitioners," writing under the nom de plume "Revere."

Good, substantive stuff -- including this recent post on the encroachment of Daubertian concepts into the public policy arena.

posted by pn at 9:10 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.