title: Commentary: is the plot thickening for partisan forensic expert witnesses?
abstract: Knowledge of the past has a powerful way of clarifying the challenges of the present. Dr. Weiss enables the reader to exploit this phenomenon as it applies to the important perennial struggle of the expert witness for objectivity.
authors.affiliation: Dr. Young is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Law and Psychiatry Division, Department of Psychiatry, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT. john.young@yale.edu.
authors.forename: John L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Young
mesh_terms: D016265:Conflict of Interest / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D005104:Expert Testimony / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D005555:Forensic Psychiatry / Q000266:history*; D006708:Homicide / Q000266:history*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male