Junk Science and Glass Houses

To the Editor. —

In lieu of pillorying other peer-review journals for publishing junk science, perhaps the editor of Pediatrics should critically review committee reports prior to publication that represent the official position of the American Academy of Pediatrics.¹ An article in BMJ has exposed a lack of objective scientific evidence that perimacular retinal folds accompanying retinal hemorrhages are diagnostic of abusive head trauma in young children.² The Committee on Child Abuse and Neglect has issued encyclical edicts bearing the imprimatur of the American Academy of Pediatrics that “retinal and vitreous hemorrhages and …