2. Write a letter to the ISPID Executive Board https://www.ispid.org/services/contact-ispid
Dear ISPID Executive Board,
I am contacting you today to draw your attention to the research of your member Eric Sage. His website https://sidssolution.org has convinced me that he does as he claims, have research that provides a sure, early-warning system for impending SIDS events. His research precisely identified and detailed aspects of my child’s physicality/character/nature and of my time with him/her that when presented together appear to provide a dependable early-warning system. It was remarkable to see my personal, private experience so succinctly and accurately summarized and it was cathartic to learn that the anomalous aspects of the phenomenon that are central to his research are common features amongst us SIDS parents.
A primary feature of his research is the presence of a premonition by one or both parents (and/or others close to the infant). 48.98% of the SIDS Parents respondents (in his published peer-reviewed study - https://www.neonatologytoday.net/newsletters/nt-jul21.pdf) indicated that they had experienced a premonition regarding the future death of their child compared to 1.88% in the Control Group of Non-SIDS Parents. (P-value 1.455414e-16 - Fisher’s exact test) This taken in concert with his other identified markers in the study such as delivery issues, the child’s over-performance on developmental milestones (such as holding the head up early) and the child’s unusual penchant for staring the parents directly eye-to-eye together form the basis of the early-warning system.
On his website Eric posited that the reason you have ignored his research is summed up by this quote by J. Allen Hyneck.
“As a scientist, I must be mindful of the lessons of the past; all too often it has happened that matters of great value to science were overlooked because the new phenomenon simply did not fit the accepted scientific outlook of the time.”
Given that premonition as a feature of the SIDS phenomenon had been previously studied/presented in a 1992 paper by The Southwest SIDS Research Institute with statistically significant reporting of a 21.8% incidence among SIDS parents compared to a 2.4% incidence in non-SIDS parents (along with a variety of other studies cited in the Neonatology article) AND given your own familiarity with it given its ubiquitousness in your patients’ experiences, it is my hope as a SIDS parent that the time has come for you to do the necessary and confirm the validity of Eric’s research one way or the other. If as I suspect you determine his findings to be valid, this groundbreaking research will completely change the world’s understanding/perception of the SIDS phenomenon and perhaps bring an end to its misery once and for all.
Sincerely,
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