Legal activist: The opportunities for presenting flawed science in the courtroom are numerous, and, over time, such flawed testimony in trials can influence procedural requirements for entire professions  For example, so-called expert witnesses in medical malpractice suits have testified that the use of electronic fetal monitors would have prevented certain delivery-room complications, even though their views were not corroborated by medical science
Yet, as a result of the decisions based on such testimony, the use of electronic fetal monitors during delivery has become the professional norm
Medical personnel should not be allowed to give legal testimony on topics in which they are not experts.