No, that's not what happened. Buried in the article is this sentence: << [The judge] decided that Bayes' theorem shouldn't again be used unless the underlying statistics are "firm".

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Which is quite different from tossing out Bayes's theorem entirely. Further, if less-than-certain statistics can be assigned to intervals with virtual certainty, then Bayes's theorem can still be used to get bounds on the conditional probability, which may be all that is needed. --Dan << A formula for justice Bayes' theorem is a mathematical equation used in court cases to analyse statistical evidence. But a judge has ruled it can no longer be used. Will it result in more miscarriages of justice http://www.guardian.co.uk/law/2011/oct/02/formula-justice-bayes-theorem-misc...

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Sometimes the brain has a mind of its own.