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“[s]cientific controversies must be settled by the methods of science rather than by the methods of litigation”

Boom. And the researchers didn't accuse a person of fabrication, they accused the data of being fabricated.

Courts have had little hesitation to decide these matters themselves for a long time - check out "Bite Mark Analysis" or any number of trials involving medical evidence. While I do think that they need to consider scientific matters they are vastly overconfident in the conclusions reached.

I don't see any distinction there.

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