What does “peer-reviewed” science mean, and why is it important in law?
Scientists write detailed descriptions of their work for scholarly, or so-called “peer-reviewed,” journals. Peer review means that each manuscript submitted to an editor is critically evaluated by other scientists before a decision is made to publish the work. Peer review is important in tort law because Daubert vs. Dow set criteria for what can be admitted in course as scientific evidence; one of the criteria was the theory on which the analyses rests has been subjected to peer-review.
