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The Case of Junk Science - Shaken Baby Syndrome
📻 Episode #410
🎙️ Hosted by Jason Flom
📅 Nov 27, 2023
About This Episode
Kate Judson, Executive Director of the Center for Integrity in Forensic Sciences, updates Josh Dubin's exploration of Shaken Baby Syndrome on Wrongful Conviction: Junk Science.
The Case
Kate Judson, Executive Director of the Center for Integrity in Forensic Sciences, updates Josh Dubin's exploration of Shaken Baby Syndrome on Wrongful Conviction: Junk Science.
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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00:04:11“Speaker 2: trial and replay the events of the day. You watch Speaker 2: Maria over and over again in your head. You were Speaker 2: sitting on the carpet helping one of the little boys Speaker 2: get a train rolling on its tracks when there was Speaker 2: a knock at the door. You answered it and you”
00:18:09“Speaker 3: there are no exceptions, or very very few exceptions. I mean, Speaker 3: in fact, at the time, there are plenty of transcripts Speaker 3: available where physicians said nothing else causes this, right, and Speaker 3: so it gives a very clear and definitive answer. No Speaker 3: one has to wonder in the face of such an answer,”
00:30:11“Speaker 3: or health of their child, which is incredibly tragic, and Speaker 3: then they have this prosecution, which threatens their freedom, often Speaker 3: threatens their relationship with their other children. In some of Speaker 3: these cases, parents might lose custody of other children in Speaker 3: the family, it's horrifying. It's horrifying as.”
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