Andrea Dunlop

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I'd started noticing things, you know,

True Story Media.

Over the past several weeks, we've been talking about Serial's new podcast, The Preventionist, and the significant issues with their reporting on child abuse pediatricians.

And the harm this reporting does is very real, first to the children involved, but certainly also to the doctors who are tasked with protecting them.

Dr. Stephen Boos, a child abuse pediatrician we spoke to at length for our upcoming season, said in an interview with journalist Naomi Riley last month that his colleagues are the subject of so many threats that many have had to install security systems.

He also notes a concern about attracting young doctors to the profession.

And Dr. Sally Smith spoke to us the other week about the death threats and harassment she's received as a result of misleading media coverage that she's been the subject of.

which I dare say may very well be the point of all this.

And it can be pretty challenging to unring the bell here.

For example, there was endless media coverage of the Kowalskis lawsuit against Johns Hopkins All Children's, mostly extremely favorable to them.

However, the appeal in the hospital's favor, not so much.

And while we can't speak to Dr. Jensen at the moment because of the pending litigation, as we've been discussing, the people who should actually be evaluating whether child abuse pediatricians are doing their work properly are people with expertise in the field.

And thankfully, there's almost no one in the country with more expertise than today's guest, Dr. Randy Alexander, a professor of pediatrics and notably the one child abuse pediatrician whose voice was featured in The Preventionist.

Not only does Randy have a wealth of experience in the field, he also knows both of journalist Diane Neary's targets, Dr. Deborah Jensen and Dr. Sally Smith, quite well.

You testified in the Kowalski trial.

Right.

Yes.

Well, actually, you know, the appeals court of Florida entirely seems to agree with you as this recent decision that came down a few weeks ago.

And we were able to we had this other another interview with Sally scheduled just to talk about the preventionist and low.