OK, but the problem with this diagnosis is that much of it, like yours, is anecdotal from pediatricians and other medical workers asking people to "just please believe them" when they say they can tell with 1000% certainty that a child was shaken and that the biomedical engineers don't know what they're talking about. And that's fine, co…
OK, but the problem with this diagnosis is that much of it, like yours, is anecdotal from pediatricians and other medical workers asking people to "just please believe them" when they say they can tell with 1000% certainty that a child was shaken and that the biomedical engineers don't know what they're talking about. And that's fine, conversationally. But when it comes to literally putting people in prison, I'm sorry, but there has to be actual proof, because that 1000% certainty has been wrong a lot of the time — and it can't be a confession because we already know how easy it is to not only solicit false confessions in these cases and even to convince parents that they must be guilty when they're not.
OK, but the problem with this diagnosis is that much of it, like yours, is anecdotal from pediatricians and other medical workers asking people to "just please believe them" when they say they can tell with 1000% certainty that a child was shaken and that the biomedical engineers don't know what they're talking about. And that's fine, conversationally. But when it comes to literally putting people in prison, I'm sorry, but there has to be actual proof, because that 1000% certainty has been wrong a lot of the time — and it can't be a confession because we already know how easy it is to not only solicit false confessions in these cases and even to convince parents that they must be guilty when they're not.