This is a problem with shaken baby syndrome, which asserts that infants presenting a certain pattern of medical findings (mostly subdural and retinal hemorrhage

This is a problem with shaken baby syndrome, which asserts that infants presenting a certain pattern of medical findings (mostly subdural and retinal hemorrhage) MUST have been violently shaken if no other alternative medical or accidental explanation is found. It is a diagnosis by default, which raises a number of legal issues. [1, 2] This medical diagnosis is "certain" even with no witness, no admission of violence, no antecedents of violence, no sign of trauma on the baby's body. There is absolutely no way to falsify the idea that this gesture occurred (and no way to prove one's innocence — it's a presumption of guilt). Yet, this theory is qualified as "scientific" by its proponents, but it does not lead to any predictions, only explanations. That shaking must have occurred on a given child at a particular moment, while the only person present with the child denies any violence, is an untestable and unfalsifiable proposition that is totally anti-scientific. [1] https://www.cambridgeblog.org/2023/05/a-journey-into-the-shaken-baby-syndrome-abusive-head-trauma-controversy/ https://www.cambridgeblog.org/2023/05/a-journey-into-the-sha... [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37650402 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37650402