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This is a cross post from the Lucy Letby tread. A British nurse that was convicted of murering 26 babies, in a case that's started to look a bit iffy once american journalists started covering it.
It's since been edited but the bits about 'conspiracy theorists' and 'internet slueths' and the inferance that the experts weren't been trusted remains.
Someone on twitter did a nice comparison of the Wikipedia entry on letby which is based on the court record and the details given in the article.
Here's one example
The wikipedia entry.
Here's the article version of what happened.
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Wikipedia
What actually happened.
This is what Letby's fucking Barrister had to say in court. This is the quality of legal representation she had, this guy never even tried for an acquital.
Wikipedia jannies are busy
This is from the talk page
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It's since been edited but the bits about 'conspiracy theorists' and 'internet slueths' and the inferance that the experts weren't been trusted remains.
Someone on twitter did a nice comparison of the Wikipedia entry on letby which is based on the court record and the details given in the article.
Here's one example
The wikipedia entry.
Here's the article version of what happened.
Several days later, a woman came to the hospital after her water broke. She was sent home and told to wait. More than twenty-four hours later, she noticed that the baby was making fewer movements inside her. “I was concerned for infection because I hadn’t been given any antibiotics,” she said later. She returned to the hospital, but she still wasn’t given antibiotics. She felt “forgotten by the staff, really,” she said. Sixty hours after her water broke, she had a C-section. The baby, a girl who was dusky and limp when she was born, should have been treated with antibiotics immediately, doctors later acknowledged, but nearly four hours passed before she was given the medication. The next night, the baby’s oxygen alarm went off. “Called Staff Nurse Letby to help,” a nurse wrote. The baby continued to deteriorate throughout the night and could not be revived. A pathologist found pneumonia in the baby’s lungs and wrote that the infection was likely present at birth.
Again example
Wikipedia
What actually happened.
First, a woman with antiphospholipid syndrome, a rare disorder that can cause blood clotting, was admitted to the hospital. She was thirty-one weeks pregnant with twins, and had planned to give birth in London, so that a specialist could monitor her and the babies, but her blood pressure had quickly risen, and she had to have an emergency C-section at the Countess. The next day, Letby was asked to cover a colleague’s night shift. She was assigned one of the twins, a boy, who has been called Child A. (The court order forbade identifying the children, their parents, and some nurses and doctors.) A nursing note from the day shift said that the baby had had “no fluids running for a couple of hours,” because his umbilical catheter, a tube that delivers fluids through the abdomen, had twice been placed in the wrong position, and “doctors busy.” A junior doctor eventually put in a longline, a thin tube threaded through a vein, and Letby and another nurse gave the child fluid. Twenty minutes later, Letby and a third nurse, a few feet away, noticed that his oxygen levels were dropping and that his skin was mottled. The doctor who had inserted the longline worried that he had placed it too close to the child’s heart, and he immediately took it out. But, less than ninety minutes after Letby started her shift, the baby was dead. “It was awful,” she wrote to a colleague afterward. “He died very suddenly and unexpectedly just after handover
This is what Letby's fucking Barrister had to say in court. This is the quality of legal representation she had, this guy never even tried for an acquital.
Myers told the jury, “It’s important I make it plain that in no way is this case about the N.H.S. in general.” He assured the jury, “We all feel strongly about the N.H.S. and we are protective of it.”
Wikipedia jannies are busy
This is from the talk page
An improvement to the first paragraph (made by another verified user, not me) was reverted by user cwmxii, and their explanation was the following:
This is giving unnecessary ground to the conspiracy theorists and truthers who've infested this article in the last few days, sorry.
This is an incredibly inappropriate explanation for a Wikipedia edit. This user did not dispute the reliability of the edit, the cited material, the prior explanation for the edit, or the importance of the edit. Their only explanation is that it "gives ground" to people that the user has baselessly deemed conspiracy theorists.
This is not the first time this has occurred. As a result, the opening section of the article is inaccurate. It is written as if there is no controversy whatsoever about the case which is not true, it inaccurately summarizes the facts about the shift schedule, and there is emotional writing rather than facts based writing. For example, the user deleted the phrase "who was convicted of murdering" and changed it to "who murdered" because it did not fit with their sensibilities, even though the prior version was factual, did not question the verdict, and actually was more informative (she was convicted by a jury for multiple murders, which is more specific than the more vague phrase "who murdered").
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