How Can Doctors Be Sure A Baby's Been Shaken?

Jessica Pishko, The Atlantic: Health
Mon, 11/24/2014 - 10:47am

As the mounting number of DNA exonerations reveals, America’s criminal-justice system is ill-equipped to deal with the rapid pace of scientific advances. A new group of criminal convictions based on what was once considered incontrovertible medical evidence is now under scrutiny—prosecutions based on shaken-baby syndrome (SBS). Unlike most crimes, injuries and deaths assumed to be from SBS have no adult witnesses other than the accused.

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