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  • @WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish
    28•7 months ago

    Meadow’s Law – a controversial and now discredited precept that three or more sudden infant deaths in one family were murders until proven otherwise.

    This is like the insidious logic applied in the name of terrorism and pedophilia — “innocent until proven guilty… unless 3 infants die… Then it’s zero-evidence auto-murder, and may god have mercy on your soul”.

    • @brukernavn@lemm.eeEnglish
      9•7 months ago

      Meadow’s Law sounds like something a James Bond villain would say. Because it is. It’s based on this quote from Goldfinger:

      Mr Bond, they have a saying in Chicago: Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time it’s enemy action.