a showing that the speedmeter was properly set up and tested by the police officers without any need for independent expert testimony by electrical engineers as to its general nature and trustworthiness.”). 12 As the concurrence notes, we have not attempted to identify the criteria by which to distinguish a clear case of scientific validity from one for which judicial notice can be used to establish that. However, implicit in our decision is the principle that a device that is widely used to produce information used in everyday applications is a device whose product — that is, information — can be considered for treatment as a clear case of scientific validity when the device is universally accepted by the scientific community as valid for those applications. Cf. Lyons, 324 Or at 271 (<HOLDING>). For example, body temperature readings from a
holding that dna pcr evidence not covered by statute and requiring the evidence be subjected to the inquiry outlined in reed holding that product rule method of dna statistical evidence is now generally accepted in the relevant scientific community recognizing universal acceptance in the scientific community of the principles and techniques on which dna typing and pcr replication are based recognizing that dna identification of humans is generally accepted by the scientific community and is based on knowledge about the extent of genetic variation in humans identification of discrete variable polymorphic dna loci and accurate probability estimates all of which were developed through years of extensive research and validation by the scientific community holding that the frye test of general acceptance in the scientific community was superceded by the federal rules