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_audakel on Nov 13, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: If Prisoners Ran Prisons

"knowing" someone is a murderer is actually quite difficult with all the recent discoveries of "junk science" that have historically been used to prove guilt.

andrepd on Nov 14, 2016 [–]

? What's your point?

etatoby on Nov 14, 2016 | [–]

His point is that a lot of people have been and keep being sent to prison thanks to DNA testing and other methods, recently proven to be unreliable.

Therefore falsifying the premise to the entire argument GP was replying to.

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