This work required scientific expertise, but it also required something else: artistic imagination, the ability to recreate bodies and bring them to life.

This may not be entirely surprising when you look at the lack of scientific expertise in the cabinet.

Our profession needs to be more comfortable with saying what it doesn't know, particularly when the scientific expertise - on which this hinges - has not yet established a viable exit strategy.

Leading forensic scientists warned that in many more trials flawed scientific witness statements have not been vigorously challenged because defence teams lack the necessary resources and scientific expertise.

Meteorologists have hard scientific expertise yet weather conditions can change quickly and forecasters observe only a sample of data.