Around the world, questions are being asked about shaken baby syndrome and the validity of the science behind it.

Doctors, scientists, and lawyers across the UK and parts of the US have challenged the diagnosis, which has been used to separate children from their parents and put people behind bars.

But here in Australia, there's been "no conversation about it at all" – until now.

Award-winning journalist Michael Bachelard admitted he was hesitant to be the one to start the conversation.

That changed when he heard the stories of real Australian families torn apart by allegations of child abuse based on shaken baby syndrome diagnoses that, according to the parents, just weren't true.

"It just seemed to me such a clear example of where the medical diagnosis had run ahead of all of the

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