Wisconsin Watch
From the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism
We found 3 episodes of Wisconsin Watch with the tag “child abuse pediatrician”.
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Two couples sue former UW child abuse doctor for alleged misdiagnoses
January 3rd, 2023 | 20 mins 37 secs
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Dr. Barbara Knox left Wisconsin and Alaska amid allegations of workplace bullying and wrongful diagnoses of child abuse; she now practices in Florida.
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A controversial doctor. A disputed abuse diagnosis. Two convicted Wisconsin men say they are innocent.
May 10th, 2022 | 28 mins 24 secs
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Dakota Black and Joshua Gehde are in prison for homicide after former UW Dr. Barbara Knox accused them of inflicting abusive head trauma on children. They both insist they are innocent. In the latest installment of our series "Flawed Forensics," Wisconsin Watch reporter Brenda Wintrode investigates Knox's findings of "abusive head trauma" — a controversial diagnosis which one New Jersey judge recently described as “junk science.”
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Embattled former UW child abuse pediatrician resigns Alaska position
February 1st, 2022 | 7 mins 26 secs
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Wisconsin Watch brings you the latest news about former University of Wisconsin pediatrician, Dr. Barbara Knox. On Jan. 27th, Knox resigned from her position leading Alaska’s forensic child abuse clinic — days after Wisconsin Watch and the Anchorage Daily News reported on a couple who lost custody of their two young children after Knox wrongly diagnosed their 3-week-old baby as being abused.