“没有两个指纹完全一样,这事没法证明,”英国法医监管机构官员迈克•西尔弗曼告诉《每日电讯报》说,“基本不可能,但就和买彩票一样,尽管知道几乎没可能中奖,但还有人每周都买彩票。”
There can be serious consequences if most people believe that fingerprint analysis is infallible. In 2005, Simon Cole, a criminologist at the University of California at Irvine, published a study detailing the 22 known cases of fingerprint mistakes in the history of the American legal system.
如果多数人都相信指纹鉴定绝对不会出错,可能会带来严重的后果。2005年,美国加州大学欧文分校的刑事学家西蒙•科尔发布了一项研究报告,列出了美国司法制度建立以来已知的22个指纹鉴定导致的错误。
He stressed the need to address this misconception lest more innocent people find themselves accused, or even convicted, of crimes they did not commit.
他强调了破除这一误解的必要性,以免更多无辜的人因为指纹被控告,甚至定罪。
Myth 2: Rolling your tongue is a genetic trait
误解二:会卷舌头是基因决定的
In 1940, geneticist Alfred Sturtevant published a paper claiming that genetics determined your ability to roll your tongue - parents who could roll their tongues were likely to have children who could as well.
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