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Kathleen Folbigg: (Australia); Lucy Letby: (U.K.) Science and scientists to the rescue: The Kathleen Folbigg and Lucy Letby cases: Publisher's Note: Kudos to the scientists around the world who set aside the privacy of their laboratories to plunge into the very public, often emotional, confrontational judicial process and defend both their science and people whose convictions, they believe, are seriously in doubt. Kathleen Folbigg, in Australia, and Lucy Letby, in the U.K. are cases in point; They remind me that judicial processes developed centuries ago can prove utterly inadequate when it comes to adjudicating issues involving science. They also remind me that Robert Roberson sits on Texas because of 'shaken baby syndrome' junk science. If only America's scientific community could make it clear to the world - as did the scientists who spoke out in the Foolbigg and Letby cases - that they will not sit back in their privacy of their laboratories, while a innocent person might be executed because the state got 'science' terribly wrong. Hopefully, there is still time. Harold Levy: Publisher: The Charles Smith Blog;