Attorneys have recently attempted to confuse medical/scientific witnesses by asserting that legal certainty is less rigorous than scientific certainty, therefore, implying that courts do not require meeting a scientific certainty burden. [More]

Claims of Lead toxicity in a child producing cognitive disorders, behavioral problems, delinquency, ADHD, etc. all suffer from the same misuse of data. They take studies of large populations which have controlled for numerous variables - maternal IQ, home life, socioeconomic status, birth-associated abnormalities and many others and only then can lead effects by teased out. In fact, absent such controls, lead effects cannot be found in most of those studies. [More]