The Trouble With Shaken Baby Syndrome
After three decades and thousands of accusations and fractured lives, medical and legal experts are challenging shaken baby syndrome as a diagnosis. And as one family's saga demonstrates, we can't wait any longer to get it right.
Hasnain says:
" “When we started using more advanced imaging techniques such as MRI,” he told PBS’s Frontline in 2011, “we started realizing there were a number of medical conditions that can affect a baby’s brain and look like the findings that we used to attribute to shaken baby syndrome or child abuse.”
“If you look at it with any scrutiny whatsoever, the absolute bogus nature of the syndrome is clear as a bell,”"
So the study that is used as a basis for shaken baby syndrome involved putting monkeys through a (simulated) 40-mph automobile collision. I'm not sure how I feel about this.
Posted on 2014-04-21T03:31:20+0000