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Shake the baby! - UltraBudgie - 11-04-2024
Shaken Baby Syndrome Has Been Discredited. Why Is Robert Roberson Still on Death Row?
Quote:Convicted of a crime that never happened, Roberson’s case is a prime example of how the U.S. legal system often fails to recognize advances in scientific knowledge
Hmm...
- Microscopic hair analysis
- Voice stress analysis
- Psychological profiling
- Repressed memories
- Bite-mark analysis
- Bullet matching analysis
- Lie detectors
- Arson investigations
PS: Don't shake babies
RE: Shake the baby! - Maxmars - 11-04-2024
This is a real tough one for the medical community.
Imaginary inner dialog:
"Do we virtue signal as defenders of infant and toddler patients, too often treated roughly, or causally injured by mistreatment? Or do we admit that our research into the actual science of these injuries is not yet all it should be?"
I for one, am currently of a mind that death penalties, for all their good feelz towards revenge, are a treacherous exercise in legal futility - it remedies nothing other than retribution. In that light, I'd rather not ever risk killing a potentially innocent person in the name of "justice."
But that's just me now... hurt my family or friends, threaten my life, become some manner of mortal enemy, and I can't promise that won't change... I'm not a robot.
I would rather be able to assert that the medical community would never make assertion in the cases of law that are predicated on "We are doctors, therefore we know." Especially when we have already been witness to that kind of prestige being abused before (think back... it'll come to you.)
So as a mans' life is on the line for the death of his own daughter... I would think it common sense that doctors are going to have to address this matter with sobriety, and not 'pride.' I would ask they commit to being "certain" through rigorous dispassionate analysis... and let the data speak for itself. And when you don't know... say "We don't know," after all, a mans' life is on the line.
But hey, I'm no doctor... what would I know?
