作者: Christopher Meisenkothen
DOI: 10.2190/NS.24.1.A
关键词: Plaintiff 、 Environmental exposure 、 Chrysotile 、 Asbestos 、 Mythology 、 Forensic engineering 、 Junk science 、 Law 、 Engineering
摘要: The now well documented phenomenon of “doubt science” has crept into litigation generally, but had a particularly deleterious effect in asbestos litigation, giving rise to pernicious myths that are told and re-told every day legal briefs court proceedings. Defendants routinely challenge the admissibility testimony from plaintiffs' expert witnesses when those experts testify about certain key concepts medicine science. boldly proclaim experts' opinions be “junk seek have them precluded regardless how documented, researched, supported accepted are. This become all too routine where defendants predictably preclude medical scientific issues been settled for decades not legitimately disputed outside by unbiased community national international regulatory agencies scient...