Adam Ruins Everything Season 1 Episode 4 - Adam Ruins Forensic Science

Airdate: 2015-Oct-20

Episode summary:

Adam uncovers the scary truth behind unreliable methods that are commonly used to build evidence in criminal cases. He explains why polygraph machines are pseudoscientific hokum, demonstrates why your memories cannot be trusted, and exposes the flaws of forensic sciences like fingerprinting, hair strand matches and bite mark analysis - which often send innocent people to jail.

About Adam Ruins Everything series:

n Adam Ruins Everything, host Adam Conover employs a combination of comedy, history and science to dispel widespread misconceptions about everythin...Show more >