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In UK, “Shaken Baby Syndrome” skeptic doctor not allowed to testify

No one’s arguing that Shaken Baby Syndrome, or SBS, isn’t a terrible thing. Dr. Marta Cohen would just like to look at individual cases a little more closely. Even when the classically accepted signs of SBS are evident, Cohen says, parents shouldn’t be convicted of murder without rigorous examination and (my words) cautious, unbiased skepticism. Short falls, for example, can cause the same or similar injuries as SBS.

Japanese man sues surgeons for literally tearing him a new asshole

Media types often hold up the New York Post‘s “Headless Body in Topless Bar” as the best newspaper headline in history. It’s a good one, to be sure. I actually prefer the front pager that ran in The Trentonian in 2002: “Roasted Nuts.” The story concerned a fire at Trenton Psychiatric Hospital. Genius! Now, though, [...]

Not just another Cronenberg movie: Twin pediatricians on trial for boy-touching

Good lord, this is a creepy story. It’s alleged that doctors Mark and R. Scott Blankenburg, twin pediatricians working in Butler County, Ohio, have been boning their underage male patients for decades. Well, not boning per se — but still doing bad things. According to the Washington Post, Dr. Mark fondled and blew several patients, [...]