Andrea Dunlop

To start with, why don't you just tell me why you reached out to me?

What was the impetus for that?

It felt like the right thing to do to hear John out, and it was a conversation that I genuinely wanted to have.

John was offering me a chance to ask the questions I wish my fellow journalists would ask in these cases.

You say the doctors lied about you, so what did they lie about exactly?

We presume innocence in our legal system.

The bar for conviction is high, beyond a reasonable doubt.

The onus is not on the accused to prove that they didn't do the crime.

But in the court of public opinion, the alleged abusers are the ones making an accusation.

If you're going to claim a doctor falsely accused you of abuse, that's a serious claim that has serious impact.

Undermining public trust in doctors unnecessarily causes a myriad of problems that can escalate into a full-on public health crisis.

Measles outbreaks, anyone?

John was making some big claims about Dr. Sally Smith, and I was listening.

But I was also going to have some questions of my own.

People believe their eyes.

That's something that is so central to this topic because we do believe the people that we love when they're telling us something.

If we didn't, you could never make it through your day.

I'm Andrea Dunlop, and this is Nobody Should Believe Me.

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