Junk Science - Best of Coast to Coast AM - 9/16/23
The Best of Coast to Coast AM
iHeartPodcasts and Coast to Coast AM
4.1 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 17 September 2023
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Guest host Ian Punnett and Chris Fabricant of the Innocence Project explore his efforts to disprove shoddy scientific work that's used to wrongfully convict people of crimes they didn't commit, how his organization has got innocent people released from prison, and how true crime podcasts have helped craft stories of people wrongly convicted of crimes.
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| 1:36.4 | The innocence project is a well-known not-for-profit legal organization committed to |
| 1:45.2 | exoner-investigating and exonerating individuals who have been wrongly convicted through all |
| 1:53.2 | sorts of different scientific approaches often, but includes other methods as well. |
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