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Shaken or Not: That is the Question
Shaken Baby Syndrome: The Vaccination Link by Viera Scheibner
Shaken Baby Syndrome or Adverse Vaccine Reaction? by Maureen Hickman
Many parents have been charged with murder for allegedly shaking their babies to death, but medical evidence suggests that vaccinations are to blame in a large number of these cases.
Extracted from Nexus Magazine, Volume 7, Number 6 (October-November 2000)
SHAKEN BABY SYDROME DEBUNKED BY US RESEARCHERS
Dynamic Biomechanical Findings on Shaken Baby Syndrome/Lethal Minor Falls
Is the Killer the Parent or the Doctor? Vaccines and Shaken Baby Syndrome webinar with Dr. Harold Buttram
Doubts about shaken baby syndrome
Chris Van E, engineer who testifies in defense of those accused of false accusation of shaking a baby
Shaken Baby Syndrome The diagnosis “shaken baby syndrome” (SBS) has been widely accepted for over 30 years, but recent evidence from biomechanical and clinical observational studies questions the validity of the syndrome.
link In the comments section Biomechanic Dr Chris Van Ee, of Wayne State University in Detroit, said: “Shaken baby syndrome - as described as an adult shaking a child holding him by the torso with the head flopping resulting in bleeding of the brain and retinal haemorrhage - is fundamentally flawed from a biomechanics perspective. It's not valid. There's nothing to support it.”
Dr Pat Lantz, a pathologist in North Carolina, looked at the eyes of 1,500 corpses for more than two years from 2004, and said a sixth of cases had bleeding in the back of the eye.
If bleeding is more common than once thought, a pillar of the shaken baby syndrome case is weakened.
So flimsy is the evidence to support shaken baby syndrome that the diagnosis has been disallowed in two states in America, and in Canada there are calls for 142 SBS cases to be reviewed.
In 2001, Geddes showed that most of these babies do not have traumatic tearing of the nerve fibres in their brains; rather, they are starved of oxygen. Lantz, in 2006, showed that bleeding behind the eyes also occurs in babies with other, natural diseases.
For more information google on chris van ee shaken baby
Challenging an Assumption A pathologist questions shaken baby syndrome.
link "It doesn't exist," contends Dr. John Plunkett, a Minnesota pathologist who began openly questioning shaken-baby following the 1997 involuntary manslaughter conviction of British nanny Louise Woodward, the case that put SBS on the map. "You can't cause the injuries said to be caused by shaking, by shaking. ... That's just nonsense."
Shaken Baby Syndrome - many links
The Shaken Baby Syndrome by Ronald Uscinski, M.D.
Conclusions: Clinical observation and scientific experimentation and
verification should complement one another. More than 30 years
after the original hypothesis of shaken baby syndrome, this does
not appear to have happened.
With regard to treatment of cranio-cerebral trauma, the differentiation between accidental and inflicted injury is of limited practical importance: injuries are injuries. For social purposes, however, the distinction is critical.
While the desire to protect children is laudable, it must be balanced against the effects of seriously harming those who are accused of child abuse solely on the basis of what is, at best, unsettled science.
A Critical Look at the Shaken Baby Syndrome Attorneys Roger Kelly and Zachary Bravo
Michael Innis links on mis-diagnosis of Shaken Baby Syndrome
The evidence base for shaken baby syndrome We need to question the diagnostic criteria
Shaken Baby and unsafe convictions
Shaken Baby Syndrome: Debunking the Myth
The Next Innocence Project: Shaken Baby Syndrome and the Criminal Courts
Panorama: Shaken Babies, BBC One, Monday, 10 March 2008 starts about 1/5 of the way down the page
ABSTRACT 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.
link In the UK, a review of nearly 300 cases in which parents were convicted of killing their young children has identified 28 where there was "sufficient cause for concern to warrant further consideration", the Attorney General, Lord Goldsmith, has told Parliament. A further 89 cases of "shaken baby syndrome" will be reconsidered in the light of a judgment from the Court of Appeal expected in 2005, Lord Goldsmith promised. Three pending prosecutions have already been abandoned "on the grounds that it was not safe to proceed".
Review of 300 Child Deaths Identifies 28 Dubious Convictions
Childhood Immunizations and Abrupt-Onset Apnea
Is it Shaken Baby,or Barlow's Disease Variant? by C. Alan B. Clemetson, M.D.
Shaken Babies by Archie Kalokerinos, MDDebbie Grater's Story & email list - "people accused of SBS"
Shaken Baby Syndrome or Vaccine Induced Encephalitis: The Story of Baby Alan
The Hidden Tragedy - Shaken Baby Syndrome Huge number of links to important documents on this page
SBS: Clemetson: Shaken Baby or Scurvy?
Caffey Revisited: A Commentary on the Origin of Shaken Baby Syndrome
Did Baby Alan Die of Shaken Baby Syndrome?
by Harold E. Buttram, MD
Alan Yurko, falsely accused of shaking his baby to death - challenge and offer
"I think the weight of the world was lifted from the Carey`s shoulders,"
defense attorney Joe Krakora said outside the courthouse in Flemington
on Tuesday after the 12-day trial. "They`re extremely relieved and
tremendously grateful." Carey, a former Union County police officer who
used to live in Readington, now resides in Washington Township in Warren
County. The son, who is nearly 3, is developmentally disabled. It took
the Superior Court jury nearly two full days to reach a decision. Jurors
returned to the Judge Marilyn Rhine Herr`s courtroom three times to
watch videotaped testimony from witnesses from both the prosecution and
the defense. Assistant Prosecutor Marcia Crowe could not be reached for
comment Tuesday.
The baby was born in October 1995, and was first brought to the hospital
on Dec. 11, 1995. He was treated for vomiting and irritability, and his
pediatrician determined that the boy had a nonspecific viral condition
and an allergy to milk. He was brought back to the hospital on March 22,
1996, by paramedics after he suffered a seizure. The boy had received an
inoculation a few hours earlier, which witnesses for both sides agreed
could trigger a seizure in babies who had suffered head trauma.
Vomiting, lethargy, increasing head circumference, seizures, apnea and
coma are all symptoms of shaken-baby syndrome. According to medical
records, the boy was demonstrating some of those symptoms during his
December 1995 visit to the hospital. But Krakora argued that these
symptoms also could have been a sign that the boy had some other
neurological problem that wasn`t picked up by doctors.
Source: The Courier-News
Jury: Father didn't shake his son
Published in The Courier-News 9/2/1998
By SHARON SILKE
Staff Writer
A jury on Tuesday cleared a Warren County man who was accused of
inflicting brain damage on his son by shaking the then 5-month-old baby.
William Carey was charged in March 1996 with second-degree aggravated
assault and endangering the welfare of a child a week after his son
suffered seizures and was rushed to the hospital. Doctors at Robert Wood
Johnson University Medical Center detected hemorrhages behind the
5-month-old boy`s eyes and determined the cause was shaken-baby
syndrome. The baby had received an immunization earlier that morning,
which defense attorneys argued was the cause of the seizures and the
bleeding behind the boy`s eyes.
Published: September 02, 1998
Letter to all of you from Alan Yurko
Alan Yurko sent me this and asked me to type this up and send it out all over the PLANET..
If you don't know the Yurko family's story, please read it first BEFORE you read this letter
http://www.woodmed.com/ShakenBabyAlan.htm
Please read this carefully and take it to heart and become involved ANY WAY you can - it could be you or your family or your baby.
We are all one family after all!
Sheri Nakken, RN, MA
(sorry if there are typos as I was trying to type fast to get this out)
Please write to Alan!
*****
Alan R. Yurko AX13917-C1-112UP (the numbers should follow the name)
Washington Correctional Institution
4455 Sam Mitchell Drive
Chipley, Florida 32428-3501
email FRANSWRLD@aol.com
home (407) 578-1841
toll free voicemail: 1-800-388-8035 ext 8470
July 13, 2000
I just received your email today, as they say here in the big house "Good Lookin Out". Thank you for adding my wife and I to the elists. That helps! I hope to establish a solid and steady contact with you . It seems that your name is very active in the battle. It seems also that I see some of the same names over and over. (Alan lists 10 names)
Yes, it makes me wonder if these names and maybe 10 other names are the entire population of vaccine awareness activists? I know there are thousands of people out there who should be actively putting their foot up the arse of the vaccine juggernaut. How do I know? Because sitting next to me are enough VAERS reports to build a Macy's Thanksgiving float! Every parent and every member of every family whose children ahve been murdered or maimed by compulsory poisons should be at arms. Over 900 million dollars awarded from the NVICP! How much of that money is given back to help our groups? And what about the families who are denied any financial recompense because the reaction happened past 72 hours. We all kow the latent period is a joke! Anyone who wants to debate this, I'll gladly shove about 85 orthodox published studies from 1924 till presnt up their nose, and they better bring more evidence than Cherry, Baraff & Menkes because these studies don't hold water. Dr. Mark Geier won't even challenge it! (Dr. Mark Geier, a proponent of the 3-day latent period (DPT) is unable to defend his position with mine. He has bowed out of our discourse on the subject).
Do I sound angry? You bet your sweet bippie I am!
Our children are being devoluted and malformed. The medical community, pharmanazis and our govenment are playing the lottery with our offspring. I know people have to live and bills are high, but c'mon people! There's more than just (Alan lists names, that I won't list here) out there! Maybe I'm not seeing something? However....
Your challenges. I accept challenge number 1. Shaken Baby Judgements and sentences may be vaccine damages. As I pondered your email, I thought, "What the hell can these people do for them anyway?" The answer is, unfortunately, 'not much'. Then bells rang in my head! ME! I know the laws vividly. I have 100+ references, scores of case law, I've reserached the juxtapositions. I know things that most lawyers don't as far as defensive strategies. I've lived it every day for three years. I have an armada of legal contacts. I know the medical literature better than I know my own name. I have 100's of references, studies, rebuttals. I know the researchers. I correspond with scores of experts worldwide. I know the neuroscience, clinical presentations, QER ratings, current trends, prosecutorial guidelines, fatal mechanisms, microbiologies, immunologies, neuropathologies, forensics, chemical profiles. I know the many differential diagnoses NOT given in the literature. I'm a walking SBS defense, medico-legal database! Who better to help out?
Here's what I can do:
As people notify you of possible SBS cases that seem to fit a possible scenario of innocence, forward my name and contact info. If lawyers, or families want some help from the voice of experience which has been forced upon me, I will do this. I cannot offer advice but I can let them know what I would do, and give possible resources. I can direct them to studies and case laws that may apply. I can help them find the right experts and share my experience with them. I'm not interested in helping actual abusers, but I can open some eyes and point to some invaluable resources.
Here are some questions:
Why all of a sudden in the last 25-30 years are parents shaking their babies? Caffey didn't report on the whiplash shaken syndrome until 1974. Through the decades upon decades of human history, why all of a sudden in the last 30 years, has SBS been even hinted at?
Could increased friability and fragility of the vaxscular system play a part? Yes, this is pure speculation, but for those of you who undertand the effects of endotoxins on the vascular & microvascular sytems, you know exactly what I'm saying.
Of course these questions are completely rhetorical. I only state them for stimulation. I guess I'm writing this in hopes you will put it thru the elists. Being a paralegal with a pre-med background has, as you've said Sheri, puts me in a prime position to do battle. It doesn't make me any better or any more informed than other credentialed experts, but it does give me one helluvan edge. I cannot give medical or legal advice, but I can give my opinion. I don't claim to know everything. There are areas I'm still green in. Such as, the efefcts of mineral corticoids on neovascularization and the antioxidant/free radical exchange effects in traumatic brain injury. But every day I learn a little more. I find out who the enemies and allies and neutrals are. I am not an expert, nor claim to be, but what can really be done by our vax groups to help people? Most of us know about vax dangers, but do you know how they relate and correlate to SBS? The subject is obscure. The science is in its infancy and there is only a handful of neonatologists or pediatric pathologists in the country and world who have much experience with it. I've been forced to research it, and that I do, 12-16 hrs a day, 24-7-365. Frankly, if my tragedy never happened, or I was acquitted, I'd probably be blissfully ignorant and shaking our pediatrician's hand as he vaccinated my children, and ecouraging my wife to get a flu shot with firm belief in the medical mafia and lies of Louis Pasteur.
Ive thought about including a list of lawyers and doctrs to start an SBS defense database. I have some reservations about putting my contacts and doctors on this list. Not out of selfishness, but because, you must understand, each case has different issues and some issues are supported by some and not supported by others. For example, Dr. Mark Geier doesn't support the post 72 hour period. A case where its an 11-13 day reaction would be shot down by him, and possibly be adverse in itself. Many doctors have ties to the parmanazis and to prosecutors. One has to know which expert to consult for each issue. I've contacted 1,000's of hospitals, medical schools and private experts. My trial and error has had some of these things work against me. Here, my knowledge is invaluable. There are dangers in people randomly contacting lawyers and experts. Also, most, if not all of these people charge substantial sums. Some more than others. However, there are many whom will do things pro bono. Putting these people on a list would desensitze their good nature if they were contacted by repeated persons. Not everyone is innocent. I venture to say 15-20%.
What I'm finding out as I correspond with lawyers and doctors from America to New Zealand is that there is one linear facet that is essential in winning an SBS case. Every single time I hear about a lost case, its blamed on one common thing. Lack of records. One must get the entire maternal, prenatal, pediatric, terminal admission, antemortem and postmortem records. Exclusion of any one of these is fatal to the case. Prenatal, perinatal and terminal blood and chemical profiles as well as clinical presentations must be painstakingly compared by a methodical expert. Arguments on diffuse-axonal injuray, retinal hermorrhages, long-bone fractures, ICH (intracranial hemorrhage) dating, differential diagnosis, CT/MRI interpretations & EXTENSIVE histories must be given by all caretakers no matter how partial their role in the child's life was. Case laws for each state must be considered since they vary (ie. only 14 states consider the record preserved outside of contemporaneous objection in lieu of a motion/order in limine). One expert is NOT enough. Its a numbers case. The state will have the ME (medical examiner), a neuropathologist, radiologist, pediatrician and child abuse expert as well as possibly an opthalmologist, perinatologist or neonatologist. Don't be naive to think that since your one expert who has 220 published articles, dual professorships at a major universtiy, a fellow in the Royal Society of Medicine, several certifications and awards as well as being revered by the medical community, among other things, is gonna be able to win against 4 or 5 local physicians (See State of Florida vs. Alan Yurko). Don't think because you're innocent that justice will reign, or that the truth will set you free. Don't think doctors won't lie. It's a game to them. A very profitable game. $400-600 an hour is not uncommon. The doctors make way more than the lawyres. Don't trust your lawyer. You should breathe down his neck. He's not the boss, you are. Commit to memory the rules governing your State Bar's conduct for lawyers and let your lawyer know you will file a complaint at the slightest infraction. Once you read those rules you will see that you really are the boss. I could go on for days about that.one. The dating issue is integral. Prosecutors fear this. Dating the ICH (intracranial hemorrhage) is the difference between acquittal and conviction in many cases. You must know what the literature says about ante- & post-mortem dating of SH (subdural hematoma), SAH (?subarachnoid hematoma), and all ICH (intracranial hemorrhage). Most times the ME (medical examiner) will lie - you must be able to catch him on this. As a defense, you must take the offensive. You must destroy the states credibility. That's what they're gonna do to you. Another fact is that the state has UNLIMITED funds. They can hire whoever they want and you can bet your marbles they'll say whatever the state wants at $500 per hour. It's a buddy system. "You help me win this case and I got this other one that I can guarantee 15 or 20 hours billable....". Its money, honey. Capitalism! American, the best justice money can buy!
I know this is lengthy, but I hope you consider printing this and sending it out on the elists. It can then be passed along to failies or lawyres, or whoever. Feel free to edit this how you deem fit. I believe my opinion and experience can be shared, and benefitted from. I cannot give legal or medical advice. I can only state my opinions, my experiences, my accomplishments, etc. I can recommend certain experts, cite studies and case laws and let you know who is who in the medico-legal field. I have contact info for well over 2,000 doctors, lawyers and researchers in the vaccine, SBS, TBI, Child Abuse and legal arenas. Please consider me part of your task-force. Please post my prison addres also (see at top of email).
For credibility purposes, let me say that at present, I have nine experts who voice my innocence. My own appeals are still underway. I plan on using the next 12 - 18 months to solidify my case and await the review completion of 34 additional researchers/experts. Yes, 34 and growing. The wheels turn slow. I cannot afford a lawyer. Who the hell can? I advise those of you who are stting in jail cells, trusting your public pretenders, to get your butts in the law library. Learn how to work the reports and journals. Start with these cases: Sheppardize the US v: Gaskell case with your local law reporters; learn how to use the digests and annotated tomes. Become a law clerk.
Case Law
US v. Gaskell 985F.2d 1056 (11th cir. 1993)
Dixon vs State 691 So. 2d 515
Smith v. State 700 So.2d 446
New Jersey v. P.Z. 703A.2d 901
Lastly, let me say that each case is different. A good lawyer who is experienced and aggressive as well as well versed in the medical sciences is optimal. There are those who believe the term "good-lawyer" is oxymoronic. I agree, for the most part, yet there are such people. For a long time I associated these people with unicorns, gryphons and other fabled creatures of lore. You must search for them as if they were the holy grail. If you can afford, one, you may come out of it okay. If not, God hlep you. Be very afraid...and then channel that fear into productivity. as a charged or convicted "baby-killer", you will be harassed by guards and inmates. I've had feces, urine, spit and even sour milk thrown on me and all my property. If you can, avoid all physical confrontations and fights at all costs. It will be used against you to show what a violent monster you are.
To any families of those accused...if your family member is innocent, you must do everything to help.
Without you, all hope is lost.
If you are guilty....God help you.
No matter what,
Allan R. Yurko & family
