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> I thought SIDS had been debunked as... SIDS is a generic catch-all for unexplained sudden infant deaths . That's why it's literally "sudden infant death synd

> I thought SIDS had been debunked as... SIDS is a generic catch-all for unexplained sudden infant deaths . That's why it's literally "sudden infant death syndrome". At population scale, certainly some deaths would be counted in the SIDS bucket due to missing ordinary suffocation during the autopsy, but it's not correct to say that every SIDS case is just suffocation or that SIDS has been "debunked".

colechristensen 4y ago
And that diagnosis should be considered harmful if it is just a catchall for "unknown cause of death" because people go looking for answers which won't exist like this study while ignoring actual causes of death which may be preventable (like encouraging back-sleeping saves a huge percentage of SIDS-attributed deaths).