The field is laughable, really. It's sad that people making important decisions in the medical and pharmaceutical fields cannot correctly interpret a confusion matrix, or if they can they are corrupt and decide to ignore it anyway.
You really don't want to apply the same standards to law enforcement, as they are appalling.
EDIT: to the downvoters, I'd suggest doing some reading. In particular, check on the existence of any verifiable testing that proves any semblance of correlation between HIV and AIDS. The standard is appalling for any scientist who's willing to check on the numbers. In general, the standard in medical science is rather low compared to say physics, but in this case it's astonishingly low considering the accolades Montagnier got for his research. I understand it's easy to dismiss this as conspiranoia but it really is not. There are dubious claims passed as truths with very specific interests behind. Not making an assertion either way on the HIV<->AIDS relationship, just pointing out that the standard of the research is shocking and the statistics skills of the people involved are incredibly poor, if not intentionally corrupt.