Originally Posted by Epoch

Just to be balanced, I'd like to point out that it's widely acknowledged that Edwards' legal argument was based on the best medical information at the time (Until recently, asphyxia was believed to be the main cause of cerebral palsy, and this was attributed to poor treatment on the doctor's behalf... in all actuality, this accounts for 10% cerebral palsy cases), and that it took over a decade before this new medical knowledge came out. It wasn't as if he had argued this fact on the known pretense that he was deceiving the jury, but medicine had advanced and we now know better...