Daubert challenge would most likely mean an expensive, arduous pretrial event; as a result, the challenge swings legal economics away from cases where the science is new, Michaels argues.

• 在审判前，以道伯特案的裁定提出质疑，几乎注定是花钱且费力的事；因此迈可斯认为，以法律的经济学而言，对于牵涉新兴科学的案例，离得越远越好。