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Joel E. Haas, MD
The Children's Hospital and University of Colorado
Denver, Colo

Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 2003;157:291.

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The proceedings of the Second International Conference on the Causes of Sudden Death in Infants cited by Beckwith also contain summary statement discussions. In one of them,¹ the noted pediatric pathologist Benjamin Landing, MD, declared that some of the hypotheses discussed were so close to unanimous acceptance that "the method of strong inference" might be applied.¹ Landing elucidated the inherent difficulty in proving a hypothesis ultimately correct and concluded that it was much easier to prove a hypothesis wrong.

On the basis of his work with collaborators Abraham Bergman, MD, and George Ray, MD, in the 5 years before the 1969 conference, Beckwith hypothesized SIDS to be a unique entity characterized by consistent clinical, epidemiological, and pathological features.² While the 1969 definition may since have been insufficiently used or exploited, the basic hypothesis has not been proved wrong.

Beckwith's suggested revisions are meritorious for more than . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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