Low reliability, high rate of false alarms in denim-matching forensics //

For some time, there have been rumblings about the reliability and quality of commonly used forensic techniques. In 2009, the National Academy of Sciences published a weighty report observing that, apart from nuclear DNA analysis, “no forensic method has been rigorously shown to have the capacity to consistently, and with a high degree of certainty, demonstrate a connection between evidence and a specific individual or source.” //

for now, write Nightingale and Farid, “identification based on denim jeans should be used with extreme caution, if at all.”