Comments on: The hired gun http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/10/hired-gun.html medical blog Sun, 22 Nov 2009 19:59:44 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Anonymous http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/10/hired-gun.html/comment-page-1#comment-81427 Anonymous Tue, 30 Oct 2007 07:19:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2007/10/the-hired-gun.html#comment-81427 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. 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.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/10/hired-gun.html/comment-page-1#comment-81346 Anonymous Fri, 26 Oct 2007 18:15:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2007/10/the-hired-gun.html#comment-81346 His junk science caused a lot of damage to the field of obstetrics, and enriched a lot of trial lawyers.<br/><br/>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.<br/><br/>You could just as easily blame the brain damages on the phases of the moon, except you can't sue the moon. 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.

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