Comment by stephen_g

There’s no specific link between SBS and hypnosis except for this particular case.

The problem is: 1. The science seems to point towards ‘Shaken Baby Syndrome’ being able to be caused by several different things, including ones that don’t even involve physical trauma, so physical shaking is only one cause amongst many whereas most doctors and the justice system still mostly confidentially assert it’s always from shaking. Saying SBS is always a result of shaking is junk science.

2. Hypnosis is a way to extract confessions, but it’s probably extremely likely to extract false confessions. Hence why it’s generally disallowed, because it’s pseudoscience.

3. The particular case involving (1) assuming SBS is always from shaking and (2) a false confession from hypnosis happened in Texas.

So that’s the link.