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The Case of Junk Science - Shaken Baby Syndrome
📻 Episode #172
🎙️ Hosted by Jason Flom
📅 Nov 18, 2020
About This Episode
In the final episode of the season, Josh Dubin explores Shaken Baby Syndrome with Kate Judson, Executive Director for the Center for Integrity in Forensic Sciences.
The Case
In the final episode of the season, Josh Dubin explores Shaken Baby Syndrome with Kate Judson, Executive Director for the Center for Integrity in Forensic Sciences.
Shaken Baby Syndrome isn’t a foolproof diagnosis. There are in fact many other causes for the symptoms of Shaken Baby Syndrome that do not arise from intentionally shaking a baby at all.
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00:04:02“Speaker 1: her car seat, her head almost in her lap, and Speaker 1: she'd thrown up all over herself. Maria wouldn't wake up, Speaker 1: so her mom called nine to one one and she Speaker 1: was rushed to the hospital. The doctor said that the Speaker 1: baby's brain was bleeding and swollen, and her blood sugar”
00:17:27“Speaker 2: who had murdered a child. And it turns out it's Speaker 2: not that straightforward. Speaker 1: So tell us more about other ways a child can Speaker 1: come to have the same kind of symptoms or the Speaker 1: same sort of trauma that are usually associated with shaking”
00:29:23“Speaker 2: disruptive that they do one and they never want to Speaker 2: do another one. You do care about that happening. I mean, Speaker 2: it's not easy. It's always difficult. They are very emotional, Speaker 2: they are very upsetting. It is difficult to be there Speaker 2: for someone who has gone through, like, like I said,”
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