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A smartly dispassionate and skeptical look at “shaken baby syndrome,” and an accidental portrait about how science fails us when it solidifies into dogma. I’m “biast” (pro): nothing

I’m “biast” (con): nothing

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We’re all familiar with “shaken baby syndrome” from fictional crime dramas and, perhaps most infamously, the 1997 Boston trial of nanny Louise Woodward, who was convicted of killing an infant in her care by, allegedly, shaking him so hard it caused severe brain injury. But does Sbs even exist as a scientifically valid phenomenon? Or is it hysteria built on junk science? Award-winning journalist Susan Goldsmith, who has specialized in covering child abuse and larger societal issues surrounding the treatment of children, teams up with first-time filmmaker Meryl Goldsmith (the two women are cousins) for a film that may lack the slickness we’ve come...

Exclusive: Freestyle Digital Media, the newly acquired distribution arm of Byron Allen’s Entertainment Studios, has snatched up North American distribution rights to The Syndrome. The documentary, directed by Meryl Goldsmith who wrote and produced it with Susan Goldsmith, will have a limited theatrical and digital release April 15. The Syndrome follows a team of journalists, doctors, scientist and legal professionals who work to disprove the scientific validity of…...