True Story Media.

Hello, it's Andrea, and today I'm airing a special re-release of our episode about the ongoing

situation in Lehigh, Pennsylvania. The reason I'm airing this conversation with Dr. Mark

Feldman today is because, as many of you

have messaged me about, serial productions is releasing a three-part series called The Preventionist,

about the child abuse pediatrician in question, Dr. Deborah Arsenio Jensen. It's striking to hear

Sarah Koenig, one of the most famous true crime podcasters in existence,

say in the trailer for this series that she's never heard anything like this story,

when the reality is that this story is so wrote that it follows pretty much the exact

template I lay out in today's episode, which originally aired a year and a half ago.

And after listening to all three episodes in the

series, I'm also struck by how little the journalist, Diane Neary, actually came up with,

despite the fact that according to her, she's been reporting on this story for two years,

with the resources of serial, no less. And this isn't because there's no story here. I've

also been following what's happening

in Lehigh, and I'm planning a full season on the story. It's extremely complex and very interesting.

It's just that, very little of it fits into the story that I strongly suspect Neri set out to tell

here that child abuse pediatricians are too powerful and need to be checked. And as is so often the case with these stories, what Neri left out here speaks volumes.

So I'm going to walk you through just a few of those omissions today,

so that if you do listen to the series, you can do so with proper context.

In the premiere episode, Neri introduces Mark Pinsley,

a county controller who wrote an incendiary report about overdiagnosis of Munchausen by proxy in the Lehigh Valley.

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