Felicity Goodyear-Smith
Felicity Goodyear-Smith (MB, ChB, DipObst, MRNZCGP) is a GP who has specialised in the field of sexual abuse. She is the founder of the organisation COSA, Casualties of Sexual Allegations.
Felicity Goodyear-Smith
This week, long time skeptic Felicity Goodyear-Smith tells us her story... NZ Skeptics used to be called the New Zealand Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal and was ... (488 words)
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Felicity Goodyear-Smith
Today, gonorrhoea infections in young girls are taken as certain evidence of sexual abuse. Yet there is an extensive but now-forgotten literature showing that this is not necessarily the case. This ... (4091 words)
Category: Features
- court hearings - ethics - health industry - gonorrhoea -Felicity Goodyear-Smith
Paper prepared for the 1999 Skeptics Conference, Auckland, 28-29 August. Our children are our greatest investment, our hope for the future. The best thing we can do as a society is to nurture the ... (3098 words)
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- counselling techniques - false allegations - legislation -Felicity Goodyear-Smith
Some police are still guilty of scepticism, but retraining is on its way At the recent DSAC conference on rape (DSAC Inter-disciplinary Conference: "Rape: 10 years' progress?", Wellington 27-30 ... (299 words)
Category: Features
- sexual abuse - false allegations -Felicity Goodyear-Smith
In a landmark case on September 30, a 59-year-old man, Bill1, was acquitted by a jury in the Auckland High Court on charges of sexually abusing three of his daughters about 20 years ago. The ... (900 words)
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