PUBLISHER'S NOTE: The award-winning documentary 'The Syndrome' which exposes the lack of a scientific basis for 'shaken baby syndrome' - and the ugly attacks which have been made against scientists who dare to question it - is now available for rent or purchase in North America and beyond at the links below: Itunes Amazon Vudu Google Play Youtube: Outside North America: VHX.
https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?tab=wm#trash/1542b8b32cf761a3
See LA Weekly story by Amy Nicholson, published on April 9, 2016 - "Is Shaken Baby Syndrome the new satanic panic? A new doc reveals the same experts behind both" at the link below:"..."Satanic Ritual Abuse and Shaken Baby Syndrome are more similar than they sound. In both cases, the expert speak for the victim. The discredited Satanic Ritual Abuse cases proved that adults were able to pressure children to swear to all sorts of falsehoods. (One child identified Chuck Norris as his abuser.) The infants and toddlers who are alleged victims of Shaken Baby Syndrome are either dead, or too young to explain what happened. Thus a doctor's educated opinion becomes crucial—even if that doctor is adhering to incorrect “proof” of abuse. Northwestern University Law Professor Deborah Tuerkheimer estimates that approximately 95 percent of defendants are found guilty once formally accused of maiming or killing babies through violent shaking, and that 1,000 innocent people may be in prison right now. Public belief in Shaken Baby Syndrome is so strong that Congress has long deemed the third week of April National Shaken Baby Awareness Week, and 18 states require hospitals to instruct new parents about the threat to infants from Shaken Baby Syndrome. In The Syndrome, Goldsmith reveals that the doctors who frothed up Satanic Panic moved on to shape the next crisis. Chadwick, Reece and Jenny have all served as advisors to, or on the board of directors of, the National Center on Shaken Baby Syndrome in Farmington, Utah. They've defined new medical terminology in medical books which they've promoted to doctors, hospitals, and law enforcers. With hundreds of doctors following their lead, Goldsmith's documentary argues, the three helped trigger a surge of Shaken Baby Syndrome prosecutions — convictions now increasingly discredited by multiple media investigations, outspoken scientists and doctors, and attorney-led innocence projects that seek to free condemned baby shakers from U.S. prisons. “When I put it all together, it was like being electrocuted,” says Goldsmith. “It's pretty damning.”
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