Tag: shaken baby syndrome

More Fear-Based Practice Building: Shaken Baby Syndrome and Chiropractic

During my first clinical rotation in medical school, I found myself at the pediatric nurse station one afternoon waiting for a patient to arrive from the emergency department. An adorable older infant was there sitting in a bouncy chair, smiling and drooling as babies tend to do, and looking rather well for an inpatient. The nurse watching her explained that she had...

/ November 7, 2014

The antivaccine lie that just won’t die: The claim that shaken baby syndrome is really due to “vaccine injury”

One of the vilest ideas that antivaxers promote is the claim that shaken baby syndrome is in reality a "misdiagnosis" for vaccine injury. Come down the rabbit hole with me and see just how low antivaxers will go to promote this idea and use it to try to exonerate child abusers.

/ October 8, 2012