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The Standards for Reporting of Diagnostic Accuracy (STARD)
Posted on Jan 08, 2010
As Justin McShane writes in his paduiblog.com:
What does this have to do with DUI?
It is quite simple. None of the government funded research in the development or the continuation of the NHTSA-approved curriculum meets the academic consensus of STARD. Whether it is the original or subsequent research that supposedly validates the Standardized Field Sobriety Tests (SFST's), the Drug Recognition Expert (DRE) program, or even MADD's own statistics in terms of DUI, DUI accidents and/or DUI-related deaths.
In order for any academic research to be both academically and scientifically valid and for these or any published reports to be valid, they must meet the STARD standards. Otherwise these reports are not academically acceptable and by that very definition the conclusions contained within it are not scientifically valid. The raw data on much of the research is not available or has not been kept. It is not a transparent process. There is oftentimes manifest and well-known but undocumented bias by the researchers in favor of a particular conclusion. Yet, this Government-funded research is not only allowed in the Courtroom but oftentimes trumps other peer-reviewed meaningful studies that do meet the STARD standards that stand in opposition of the non-STARD government presentments.
Why in the Courtroom of law in America does true validated science come in last place and this whatever you want to call it pseudo-science wins?
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