La evaluación por pares y la publicación: lecciones para abogados

Susan Haack

doi:10.14198/DOXA2015.38.01

Autores/as

Susan Haack

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14198/DOXA2015.38.01

Palabras clave:

Evaluación por pares, Publicaciones, Pruebas científicas, Fiabilidad de la prueba pericial

Resumen

La Corte Suprema estadounidense en el caso Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals Inc. especificó como un posible criterio a tomar en consideración por los jueces para decidir la admisibilidad de las pruebas científicas la revisión por pares y la publicación de trabajos sobre la teoría o técnica subyacente al elemento de prueba en cuestión. En este trabajo se abordan algunos de los problemas que los actuales sistemas de revisión por pares y publicación enfrentan y que permiten cuestionar la utilidad del criterio si el objetivo de los tribunales es valorar la calidad de la información científica.

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