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SciPoll 634: Science in Legal Proceedings and Court Decisions
Have you ever been an expert witness in a court case?
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(208 Answers)
Answer Explanations
- Yesuser-669412Designated corporate witness
- Nouser-265910Courts not have any mechanism to consider and involve scientific experts in decision making for modern day issues.
- Nouser-237381I wasn't a witness but I wrote an expert report for a vaccine trial
- Yesuser-919082As an expert witness/participant, I have witnessed a wide disparity in what is argued as constituting best science for supporting litigation decisions, with surprising disparities of opinions among recognized experts even over science matters that are generally appreciated as foundational to the science under consideration, e.g., extremely high doses in animal toxicity studies do not meaningful predict toxicity outcomes for human exposures that are demonstrably many orders of magnitude below effect and no effect levels in animal toxicity studies.
- Yesuser-906902In a rare disease and abortion without possibility of genetic transmission
- Yesuser-925409I've served as an expert witness on a wide variety of cases, most recently pertaining to endocrine disruption.
- Yesuser-523578Medical malpractice related to surgery.
- Yesuser-404499I have been on both sides in different cases/investigations, some of them on a national level.
- Yesuser-475346I have provided expert witness testimony in my subspecialty field.
- Yesuser-471505I once served as an expert witness on an academic appointment to a state university.
- Yesuser-156266Actually served as respondent/Company representative as person most qualified/knowledgable (PMQ-PMK) but because of technical expertise I do insert technical expert points.
- Nouser-776568No, but I was part of a pool of experts in a murder case in which the culprit was identified solely on the basis of the genetic profile of stains of biological origin on the corpse
- Yesuser-585260The first answered the question: Does drug X have a causal relationship to health outcome(s) Y.
The second answered the question: Are e-cigarettes epidemic in the U.S., and are they harmful to youth and young adult health? Also, describe a scientifically valid e-cigarette abatement plan (in U.S. areas 1-9) to reduce the youth and young adult e-cigarette vaping prevalence. - Yesuser-444118I provided expert analysis that indicated that water pollution that had killed the fish in a pond was due to chemicals being used by a neighboring property that had washed off that property into the stream draining into the pond. Fish were abundant in the pond prior to the neighbor's use of the chemicals.
- Yesuser-208008I was an expert witness on a missed diagnosis. I was fair, but honest.
- Yesuser-200863Several litigations, both for the defendants and plaintiff.
My personal experience is that whenever I submit my written expert testimony telling a convincing story backed by the science that is simple enough for the jurors to understand, attorney of the opposite party try their best to throw my testimony using lame arguments, like I don't have enough expert witness experience, etc. They try to do the same to my depositions, very frustrating. When they cannot dispute the scientific facts, they try to throw the whole report and/or deposition. - Nouser-211258Often, scientific evidence is not relevant; but, when it is, lawyers/judges don't know how to understand and employ scientific studies.
- Nouser-860974No, I haven't.
- Yesuser-879267focused on the Endangered Species Act
- Yesuser-377267Confidential
Some judges have a good understanding of the science behind toxicology and risk assessment, others don't!
We may need more simple examples to illlustrate a risk to a non-scientist - Yesuser-202279Ibtestified on the behalf of the defence in a case a police officer was accused of having used lethsl force. The cop was awuitted.
- Yesuser-553491Depositions and cross-examinations, both for plaintiffs and for defendants.
- Yesuser-698496I was asked to testify in a dispute between CDMO and sponsor.
- Yesuser-304684Malpractice
- Yesuser-234128Psychological assessment in civil and criminal cases.
- Yesuser-935064I was involved in a few natural resource damage cases. Additionally, I served on review panels that operated under many of the same conditions as used in qualifying one as an expert witness.
- Yestox-expertI have testified in Court 11 times and given more than 60 depositions.
- Yesuser-180243Yes for the Judge, the defendant and the public prosecutor. While the defendant chose me based on the CV, sometimes I found that the Judge or the public prosecutor chose me based on my university position rather that on my specific expertise.
- Yesuser-777357I wrote expert white papers that discuss the strength of the science to support claims for dietary supplements.
- Nouser-843923I have explored the validity of a lie detector (aIAT) used in court settings
- Yesuser-767602Only for my job, that is Vascular Surgery.
- Yesuser-957551I've testified in court a couple to times on the side of plaintiffs (one being a private individual and the other being a State governmental agency). I've also been an expert witness in a number of adjudicatory hearings involving regulatory agency cases. I've also written opinions that are filed as briefs in civil lawsuits.
- Yesuser-813332I have been an expert witness in a public inquiry rather than a court case.
- Nouser-960566But data that I generated was used as evidence to support a public interest litigation.
- Yesuser-316370In industrial accidents cases
- Nouser-966722I never been an expert witness in a court case, because I do not have licence for it. Until now, never tried to get that licence, although I am qualified expert of the Roster of the Secretary-General’s Mechanism for Investigation of Alleged use of Chemical, Biological and Toxin Weapons (UNSGM), from the 2015.
- Yesuser-855888My opinions are referred in courts quite some times, indirectly.
- Yesuser-269814It was a case of an operator of radio frequency transmitters who was ill with cancer. There was sound scientific evidence of probable causation of the cancer by the radio frequency radiation. The organization accused had unlimited financial resources and used them to guide the court to a long process with well financed 'expert witnesses' leading to the denial of cancer causation by the radiation. The decission was not final but the victim was exhausted and dropped the case.
- Yesuser-602450As an expert physician I wrote a detailed analysis for a case
- Nouser-573537In my country, Mexico, there are very specific requisites for a professional in my field, Medicine, to be regarded as an expert. Moreover, since most of the occasions these interventions are not subject to remuneration, participating is not attractive for individuals who otherwise could be regarded as the best exponents of medical practice, and that is the cause that very often those regarded as "experts" from the legal point of view are not indeed individuals practicing medicine in the real world, but colleagues that are more in the purely academic ground.
- Yesuser-639454The diagnosis asked by jury.
- Nouser-608413I have not been requiered in my country