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State of Massachusetts caught using falsified lab tests in convictions; thousands exonerated after fake science exposed

January 31, 2017 -

For years, a state-employed chemist named Annie Dookhan has falsified drug lab tests to jail innocent people on the basis of fake science. Superiors systematically ignored several red flags on Dookhan. In 2012, she finally admitted to falsifying drug test results during her nine years at the Massachusetts state lab and was imprisoned in 2013. During her career, she marked tens of thousands of reports as ‘positive’ for illegal substances without testing them....

The War on Drugs is based on FAKE SCIENCE, warns lab science director who says labs routinely engage in “science crimes” against innocents

April 20, 2017 -

That's not hyperbole, by the way: It's a matter-of-fact description of exactly how the drug war is being waged in America, thanks to lab science criminals like Annie Dookhan, who pleaded guilty to systematically faking lab science that convicted over 24,000 people on charges of drug possession. (See the video below.)

Now, over 20,000 of those convictions are about to be thrown out because Dookhan deliberately faked the science.

"About 21,000 drug ...

Police crime labs ROUTINELY produce fake science, fake “positives” to convict innocent people

May 04, 2018 -

Lab technician Sonja Farak was responsible for testing the drugs that were confiscated from suspects who were arrested. While carrying out this important work, she was also stealing some of the drugs for herself and using them on the spot. She would later testify that she stole from other chemists’ samples, eventually stealing drugs that hadn’t been assigned for testing from the safe at the lab and manipulating inventory systems to evade detection. This meant that not only were ...

Law enforcement routinely uses fake science as an excuse to arrest and imprison people

November 18, 2019 -

While drinking and driving is never a good idea, the vast majority of those who consume alcohol at some point before getting into their cars to head home aren't actually drunk. In many cases, drivers are pulled over not for observable reckless driving, but because they were spotted leaving an establishment that serves alcohol, which police officers know they have a pretty good chance of criminalizing simply by administering a breathalyzer test.

In other words, many ...