Meadow's reputation went into decline with a series of legal reverses for his theories, and the damage was confirmed in July 2005 when he was struck off the medical register by the General Medical Council for tendering misleading evidence.

Meadow's license was reinstated in February 2006 by a London court.

Berkson's paradox-mistaking conditional probability for unconditional-led to several wrongful convictions of British mothers, accused of murdering two of their children in infancy, where the primary evidence against them was the statistical improbability of two children dying accidentally in the same household ( under " Meadow's law ").

The General Medical Council appealed to the Court of Appeal and in October 2006 by a majority decision, with the Master of the Rolls, Sir Anthony Clarke, dissenting, the Court of Appeal upheld the decision of the High Court in part, ruling that Meadow's misconduct was not sufficiently serious to merit the punishment which he had received.

The Royal Statistical Society later issued a public statement expressing its concern at the " misuse of statistics in the courts " and arguing that there was " no statistical basis " for Meadow's claim.

First, Meadow's calculation was based on the assumption that two SIDS deaths in the same family are independent of each other.

During the second appeal, the court noted that Meadow's calculations were subject to a number of qualifications, but " none of these qualifications were referred to by Professor Meadow in his evidence to the jury and thus it was the headline figures of 1 in 73 million that would be uppermost in the jury's minds ".

He endorsed the dictum that “ one sudden infant death is a tragedy, two is suspicious and three is murder, until proved otherwise “ in his book ABC of Child Abuse and this became known as Meadow's Law and at one time was widely adopted by social workers and child protection agencies ( such as the NSPCC ) in Britain.

Clark was a lawyer wrongly convicted in 1999 of the murder of her two baby sons, largely on the basis of Meadow's evidence ; her conviction was quashed in 2003 after she had spent three years in jail.

The GMC appealed to the Court of Appeal and in October 2006 by a majority decision, with the Master of the Rolls, Sir Anthony Clarke, dissenting, the Court of Appeal upheld the decision of the High Court in part ruling that Meadow's misconduct was not sufficiently serious to merit the punishment which he had received .< ref >

Meadow's Law was a precept much in use until recently in the field of child protection, specifically by those investigating cases of multiple cot or crib death — SIDS — within a single family.

Since murder ( and especially double murder ) is itself a rare event, the probability of Clark's innocence was certainly far greater than Meadow's figure suggested.

The second criticism was that Meadow's calculation had assumed that cot deaths within a single family were statistically independent events, governed by a probability common to the entire affluent-non-smoking population.

says his teacher told him it was a " gay book ," Carmela becomes irate, and refuses to acknowledge any legitimacy in this theory, even when the college students at the table tentatively back this up and cite literary expert opinion ; she heedlessly goes on to bash homosexuality in the media as though homosexuality is a new phenomenon, and Meadow's friends sit awkwardly by while Meadow's attempts to reason with her mother quickly deteriorate into hostile bickering.

Gay Meadow's final FA Cup tie was a goalless draw against Hereford United on 11 November 2006, in the first round of the cup ( Shrewsbury lost the replay match at Edgar Street ).

Dead Meadow's music was used briefly in both the season four premiere " Boys of Summer " and the season five episode " React Quotes " of The Wire.

One example is during the episode " Eloise " when during a dinner with Meadow, Meadow's boyfriend, and her upper-class liberal Ivy League friends, Carmela begins a discussion on Billy Budd, which A. J.

Newcombe founded his own record label which has released albums by The Brian Jonestown Massacre ( Bravery, Repetition and Noise and the re-release of Spacegirl and Other Favourites ), The Lovetones ' ( Be What You Want ), and Dead Meadow's ( Got Live if You Want It ).

During the 1990s and early 2000s, a number of mothers of multiple apparent SIDS victims were convicted of homicide to various extents, on the basis of Meadow's opinion.

In 2003 a number of high-profile acquittals brought Meadow's theories into disrepute.

Irvine Meadow's closest rivals are Kilwinning Rangers, who have been less successful in recent seasons, based in Kilwinning, Ayrshire, and Irvine Victoria, who play on the other side of the river Irvine at Victoria Park.

The Long Meadow's grass stretches wide for relaxation and recreation.

Despite recognition of the flaws in Meadow's statistical evidence, the convictions were upheld at appeal in October 2000.

Two people were convicted of the murder, and were known to part of the Waterfront Gang of The Meadow's area of the City Despite the murder and the 32 year long convictions for each of the men convicted, gang rivalries still exist within the Nottingham community and are to this day associated with the Goose Fair with many parents afraid to let their children attend.

As a result of the 1993 trial of Beverley Allitt, a paediatric nurse convicted of killing four children under her care and injuring five others, Meadow's ideas gained ascendancy in British child protection circles, and mothers were convicted of murder on the basis of his expert testimony.

Critics of Meadow's law state that it is based on a fundamental misunderstanding of statistics, particularly relating to probability, likelihood, and statistical independence.

While she is very proud of Meadow's accomplishments and ambition, she also envies and resents her for achieving the independence she always wanted.

Blundetto is the father of daughter Kelli Blundetto, who is Meadow's contemporary and is said to have run away from home, and identical twin boys Justin and Jason Blundetto, whom he fathered by having Tony Soprano smuggle his semen out of prison nine years before, while still incarcerated.

McClellan, who had once lost his medical license temporarily on a charge of drug addiction, was with her when she died.

Jurisdictions where alternative medical practices are sufficiently widespread may license and regulate them.

A number of career specific courses such as veterinary assisting, medical billing and coding, real estate license, bookkeeping and many more are now available to students through the Internet.

His mother, a devout Methodist, was a midwife who later obtained her medical license.

To be licensed to practice pathology, one has to complete medical school and secure a license to practice medicine.

Additionally, Jewish authorities license mohels, people specially trained by experts in Jewish law and usually also by medical professionals to perform the ritual of circumcision.

The final common method of credentialing is through certification by a Medical Director and permission to practice as an extension of the Medical Director's license to practice some medical acts.

He has cataracts and is almost entirely blind ( which has severely impaired his reading ability and has led to repeated revokings of his driver's license ), and has used medical marijuana.

It was also suggested in the episode " Wild Barts Can't Be Broken " that he does not in fact have a medical license.

Traditional naturopaths are those who have not graduated from accredited naturopathic medical colleges and are not eligible to obtain a license to practice naturopathic medicine.

Foreign-trained osteopathic physicians, who are registered with the GMC and GOsC, hold both a full medical practise and osteopathic license.

Eventually, it was discovered during a medical test that Pryor had significantly lost vision in one of his eyes, and after that he was denied a boxing license.

Ultimately, he earned the license of Christian practice as a medical doctor from the Hong Kong College of Medicine for Chinese ( the forerunner of The University of Hong Kong ) in 1892.

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McQueen was treated by William Donald Kelley, whose only medical license had been ( until it was revoked in 1976 ) for orthodontics.

Stallone stated that having discussed the story with many boxing medical professionals, the injury Rocky suffered was a milder form of brain damage, similar to that of a long term concussion that many boxers suffer from and by modern day standards are still able to gain licenses to box and would not have prevented Rocky from gaining a license to box nor killed him.

His conclusion caused Tennessee medical authorities to later revoke the medical license of Dr. George C. Nichopoulos for overprescribing.

In Dent v. West Virginia, 129 U. S. 114 ( 1889 ) a state law imposed a new requirement that practicing physicians had to have graduated from a licensed medical school or they would be forced to surrender their license.

Applicants for membership must also hold a valid medical license ( with the exception of medical students and residents ) and provide one reference who is an APA member.

His life from 1939 to 1948 was largely spent obtaining a license in grammar and philology, publishing his first papers, taking part in a medical study, and continuing to struggle with his health.

All persons holding a dual hackney carriage or private hire driver license within the City of Chelmsford must meet strict criteria as laid down by the authority which includes license renewal every 2 years, a Criminal Records Bureau enhanced disclosure check every three years and a Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency group 2 medical examination every four years.