Just more silly history, or silly history with scary potential?
By Amanda Marcotte Tuesday, February 9, 2010 23:20 EST   • Print
Friendly and PDF   • Email this page  Did a couple of pioneering
obstetricians secretly murder dozens of pregnant women in the
name of science? Lindsay makes the compelling case for “Not
bloody likely”. These kinds of revisionist histories that
postulate all sorts of fantastical theories without much
evidence are all over the place, with some of the most famous
being people who second guess the Jack the Ripper case, or claim
Shakespeare didn’t write Shakespeare, or that Lizzy Borden was
framed. By and large, they are complete bullshit. and most of
them are of little concern. But this one gave me pause, for the
reason that Lindsay alludes to:  This story has all the makings
of an anti-science urban legend. Regardless of the quality of
the underlying research, this story is going to get embellished
in the retelling and used to bash scientific medicine.  Now,
when people go off on ant