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by jfim 4576 days ago
> This is institutional failure.

Indeed. I wonder how hard it would be to have random testing of the chemists' work.

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I believe part of the accusations are that she actually tainted evidence. So testing her results would not be sufficient, you would need to test samples that she never had access to in the first place.
reputable labs already have every single piece of work looked over, and the process completely repeated for random samples at increasing intervals of time.

and defendants should have their evidence retested by independent labs when possible.