The WSJ on Barry Schifrin, pioneer of the fetal monitor and hired-gun expert witness. His colleagues view him “as a terrible waste, a guy of enormous talent who could put it to better use.”
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His junk science caused a lot of damage to the field of obstetrics, and enriched a lot of trial lawyers.
On the other hand, the number of brain-damaged babies born marches right through unchanged, as the monitor findings had little to do with the outcome.
You could just as easily blame the brain damages on the phases of the moon, except you can’t sue the moon.
Clinical junk science in the courtroom. If only the judges were not so enamored with the purported infallibility of clinicians and instead applied the rules of expert testimony across the board. At least in this case it wasn’t some poor third party being raped by “clinical causation” junk science… it was other clinicians.
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