Title: A response to: "NIST experts urge caution in use of courtroom evidence presentation method",
Abstract: A press release from the National Institute of Standards and Technology
(NIST)could potentially impede progress toward improving the analysis of
forensic evidence and the presentation of forensic analysis results in courts
in the United States and around the world. "NIST experts urge caution in use of
courtroom evidence presentation method" was released on October 12, 2017, and
was picked up by the phys.org news service. It argues that, except in
exceptional cases, the results of forensic analyses should not be reported as
"likelihood ratios". The press release, and the journal article by NIST
researchers Steven P. Lund & Harri Iyer on which it is based, identifies some
legitimate points of concern, but makes a strawman argument and reaches an
unjustified conclusion that throws the baby out with the bathwater.