25. Doctors used controversial testing methods

“Middlesbrough, UK.

2 smartarse pediatricians at the local hospital decided to use a controversial and unfounded method of testing children for child abuse called ‘Reflexive anal dilation’ (literally spreading the kids cheeks and stimulating the anus with equipment then measuring the diameter.)

Thanks to their dodgy methods, 121 kids were taken from their homes (94 returned when it was proven they weren’t being abused), families wrecked and the town still holds a lingering reputation as a pedophile hotspot to this day (despite it being false). This all took place in a fairly short period in the late 1980s.” — DragDagger