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Please see the medical journal that speaks to Ommaya's Department of Transportation studies that were used to create the hypothesis of Shaken Baby Syndrome. It speaks of how 11 out of the 18 adult Rhesus monkeys with diffuse axonal injury additionally had neck injury. This is telling when considering that SBS is made as a diagnosis without neck injury or microscopic evidence of diffuse axonal injury in the brain (impossible at present time to determine without autopsy and microscopic viewing of the brain).
Science cannot be based on confessions, Dr. Squier tells fellow medical professionals in this review. Since when did the scientific method rely on a group of people taking a plea in a courtroom?
*************************************************************************************************** DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8749.2007.02004.x
Shaken baby syndrome: the quest for evidence
Waney Squier FRCP FRCPath, Department of Neuropathology, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, UK.
"Shaken baby syndrome (SBS), characterized by the triad of subdural haemorrhage, retinal haemorrhage, and encephalopathy, was initially based on the hypothesis that shaking causes tearing of bridging veins and bilateral subdural bleeding. It remains controversial. New evidence since SBS was first defined three decades ago needs to be reviewed. Neuropathology shows that most cases do not have traumatic axonal injury, but hypoxic–ischaemic injury and brain swelling. This may allow a lucid interval, which traumatic axonal injury will not. Further, the thin subdural haemorrhages in SBS are unlike the thick unilateral space- occupying clots of trauma. They may not originate from traumatic rupture of bridging veins but from vessels injured by hypoxia and haemodynamic disturbances, as originally proposed by Cushing in 1905. Biomechanical studies have repeatedly failed to show that shaking alone can generate the triad in the absence of significant neck injury. Impact is needed and, indeed, seems to be the cause of the majority of cases of so-called SBS. Birth-related subdural bleeds are much more frequent than previously thought and their potential to cause chronic subdural collections and mimic SBS remains to be established."
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