“Confusing Juries with Science”

Dr. Waney Squier presents a TED talk about what she experienced when she dared to challenge the paper thin foundations of Shaken Baby Syndrome. When the English doctor’s research led her to testify against Shaken Baby Syndrome in court, officials revoked her medical license as punishment.

Police, striving to achieve a certain number of convictions instead of seeking the truth, accused her of “confusing juries with science.” Now, Squier shares her plea to institutions of medicine and law around the world to let the objective truth of science speak: