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" In 2013 the FBI admitted that in more than two thousand cases between 1985 and 2000, analysts may have exaggerated the significance of hair analysis or reported them inaccurately.15 The National Academy of Science has said that hair matching is “unreliable.”16 It was this error trap that condemned Jimmy Ray Bromgard, mentioned in chapter 4, to fifteen years in prison for a crime he didn’t commit. "

Matthew Syed , Black Box Thinking: Why Some People Never Learn from Their Mistakes - But Some Do


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Matthew Syed quote : In 2013 the FBI admitted that in more than two thousand cases between 1985 and 2000, analysts may have exaggerated the significance of hair analysis or reported them inaccurately.15 The National Academy of Science has said that hair matching is “unreliable.”16 It was this error trap that condemned Jimmy Ray Bromgard, mentioned in chapter 4, to fifteen years in prison for a crime he didn’t commit.