Moreau Gaétan
Département de biologie, Université de Moncton, Moncton, NB E1A 3E9, Canada.
Insects. 2021 Mar 12;12(3):240. doi: 10.3390/insects12030240.
To bridge the gap between experimentation and the court of law, studies in forensic entomology and other forensic sciences have to comply with a set of experimental rules to generate probabilistic inference of quality. These rules are illustrated with successional studies of insects on a decomposing substrate as the main example. The approaches that have been used in the scientific literature to solve the issues associated with successional data are then reviewed. Lastly, some advice to scientific editors, reviewers and academic supervisors is provided to prevent the publication and eventual use in court of forensic studies using poor research methods and abusing statistical procedures.
为了弥合实验与法庭之间的差距，法医昆虫学和其他法医学领域的研究必须遵循一套实验规则，以生成具有概率性的质量推断。这些规则以在分解底物上进行的昆虫演替研究作为主要示例进行说明。接着回顾了科学文献中用于解决与演替数据相关问题的方法。最后，向科学编辑、审稿人和学术导师提供了一些建议，以防止使用糟糕研究方法并滥用统计程序的法医研究在法庭上发表并最终被采用。
