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The child abuse contrarian: A renowned scientist turned expert witness relies on his own controversial theory to help alleged abusers avoid prison
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- Title
- The Child Abuse Contrarian - ProPublica
- Authors
- David Armstrong
- Published
- Sep 26 2018
- Word count
- 7679 words
ProPublica followed up today that Boston Medical Center is finally disciplining him and restricting him from treating or evaluating any children.
it is mildly incredible to me that his insistence on flagging nearly every incident or injury inflicted to a child he's seen to EDS didn't get him any sort of discipline sooner (and that the discipline here took 9 months from reporting and 21 months from the ban to happen at all), because it sure seems like a bunch of people put the dots together awhile ago that he's a charlatan on some level.
You'd be surprised at what kind of a free pass you can get in the medical realm if you've contributed something significant such as his findings on vitamin D.
Chances are no one took the accusations seriously until the media came rolling in.
i mean, people seemingly did, though. the article notes a few times he got sternly reprimanded for being a bit of a crank and a quack about things by a couple of people over the years for his over-reliance on that one particular diagnosis in every similar situation and that some of those people found his originally compelling theory to be wholly false with a bit of research; those reprimands just apparently didn't go further than being reprimands until recently, and nobody escalated the issue of his theory being wrong.