Yeah yeah, we get it. You hate Christians and you hate white people. Just tell the story already. And it might help to research a bit: A cheap used car in Zambia in 2011 did in fact cost $6,000 - $10,000. Zambia places approximately 76% duties and tariffs on imported cars. Yes, nearly all other countries place absurdly high tariffs/duties on most imports.

Thank you! I listened because I was looking for something to tell me my family we were not crazy dealing with my grandpas second wife. She is much younger than he was and seemingly put him on the fast track to death as soon as he got an early diagnosis of dementia maybe 4 years ago. We learned through the grapevine that he passed last year and I’ll never know how. This show is detailed, informative, respectful of other religions and cultures easy to continue listening since she reports quite objectively.

Truly such an incredible podcast with an amazing host and hosts who strive to spread the most up to date information while also protecting victims and survivors

The podcast takes a thoughtful, well researched, and thorough deep dive into Factitious Disorder and Medical Child Abuse. While the podcaster readily admits her bias, I appreciate that she makes an effort to interview those with opposing points of view. It has me rethinking blind acceptance of documentaries as presenting the whole or complete picture, and that before weighing in with an opinion, it is important to look at these issues from multiple perspectives.

Unfortunately, in the episodes about Rady Children’s, Dr Bex and Andrea have shown a lack of knowledge about the diagnosis, treatment, symptoms and care for kids with EDS and POTS. It’s really disappointing. I’ve unfollowed after listening to them double and then triple down in their (flatly wrong) statements and ideas about how severe these diseases can be. I don’t know if abuse occurred in this particular case, but it’s so disheartening to see another stigmatized group be thrown under the bus in their discussions. It’s hard enough to find competent care for EDS and the misinformation provided in these episodes will make it that much harder for those patients to be believed and taken seriously.

Obviously MBP is a real issue that causes real harm. But do these sensational, serialized media stories actually help kids? Maybe that was the original intention, but that has been lost. What about the privacy of the kids, especially the girls in the most recent season? What is the impact of these young people discovering media that dissects their personal lives as they get older? If they do discover it, it will just create more emotional suffering for these young people. That feels exploitative.

The art of story telling could be improved

So interesting! I got a lot of out this podcast as a nurse and as a parent.

Listened to all of the episodes up to season 5. I have enjoyed everyone of them! Diving into season 5 now

While i do enjoy the podcast , the use of LIKE through out Andrea speaking is TERRIBLE for a podcaster, someone help her break this habit

The case was interesting but by the end (and I couldn’t even finish the last two episodes) it felt like the host made this podcast for the soul purpose of creating a “gotcha” moment for her own sister. I almost found myself wondering if Sophie wasn’t actually innocent of the allegations because the host was so irritating and difficult to listen to.

Like everyone else I watched Take Care Of Maya and totally bought into the narrative that the hospital had caused the suicide of Beatta. Oh boy has my mind been changed by this podcast. Excellent balanced reporting by Andrea. MBP is something I’d barely heard of before finding this podcast. I now realize how important it is to educate the general public about MBP. Thank you Andrea for all your support for survivors of MBP.

I recommend her non-fiction book as well. It's riveting!

Andrea chooses interesting and important subject matters to discuss in her show, and she covers these sensitive topics with thoughtfulness toward her guests, BUT.... I get sooooo tired of hearing Andrea talk about herself - HER experiences and HER family and HER past. For loyal listeners, like myself, it's redundant and repetitive and quite annoying. I'm so sorry, Andrea, but the season that you did about your own life was unbearable for me to listen to and I had to turn it off. The "me, me, me" was just too much.

Take care of yourself and keep doing what you do. As hard as this must be at times this information needs to get out there. You are so informative and professional. You as others on your podcast tell your stories based on lived experiences with grace , truth ,research and hard facts.

I find the topic interesting and I’m learning a great deal. However, the host often interrupts or speaks over the experts she interviews. I also reeeeeaaaaalllly wish she’d clear her throat. Her voice can be so grating.

This is a great show, covering topics that no one else is talking about. Andrea’s book is AMAZING.

The insight into the background of Maya and her mom is fascinating. From the first time that I heard the news about Maya and her mother, I thought the mom was mentally ill — seeking ever increasing doses of ketamine for her 9 or 10 year old daughter notwithstanding the huge risks of using ketamine on a regular and increasing basis. I’m sorry the mom committed suicide, but it’s not because of Johns Hopkins or the docs — mom appears to have suffered mental illness that not only led to medical abuse of her daughter, but to her ultimate suicide. Then daddy sued for $250 million when daddy was enabling his mentally ill wife. But too much of the content is boring filler with monotone and boring interviewees who cannot speak two words without using “like”. I stopped listening because the series became so boring. The never ending interviews of Jo are boring in the extreme. I listened to some of the Jo content and then stopped listening to the podcast.

I really liked this podcast but then the host praised The Witch Trials of JKR and I immediately stopped listening and unsubscribed. It’s wild seeing other reviewers claim that the podcast is “woke” when the host literally just outed herself as a TERF. The gender critical movement hurts everyone, including cis women, but people like the host are so deep in their hatred of trans people that they can’t see how their movement harms women. I am horrified that the host would align herself with the far right TERF movement during a time when trans rights in the United States and Britain are being systematically destroyed. Shame on her.

The stories are well told but the woman in season 5 was cleared by the courts and all charges dropped. We can argue whether that was the right call, but making podcasts treating someone random as a criminal that was cleared of any criminal wrongdoing feels like a bad precedent to set. Maybe the host should at least say that all charges have been dropped at the outset so we have the proper framing?

Totally love the series but, I find the constant talk about the Andreas sister and other famous cases monotonous. I liked learning about the ones we have never heard of and things that are not the “norm”. I’m Definitely a subscriber but, if I were to change things I would change that!

I think it was Season 3 where I felt the show wobbled but Andrea really hits stride this season, beautifully weaving her lived experience with the facts of the case. Fascinating topic and thoughtful narrator.

This is a great podcast about a difficult and very misunderstood subject. The author centers her narration on the children’s/ victims perspective, which is an important correction to the pathology of Munchausens by proxy, which centers the perpetrator. It’s true crime, a reflection of the impact on the whole community, and an exploration of the investigations and justice process around these cases.

How can you praise her like that? She has lied she’s not a real journalist, this is ridiculous!

This is a very interesting podcast about a serious and important topic that I don’t think is well known or understood, I think overall very well done! I do have to agree with another review I saw about the repetition, the intro lines seem too long to be something repeated each time, & feels like I’m having to skip a lot. But knowing I have ADHD & it might just be me, not a huge deal / not really affecting how I’m rating. I’m still very interested enough to keep listening! Want to add absolutely bananas to see multiple reviews complaining that a podcast that is constantly praising / featuring a police officer is “woke” 😂😂 If anything, there have been a couple times I winced at a potential rightward lean, but I’m excited to get further in to the season those reviews are complaining about! Very glad to see someone’s pronouns are used correctly, how sad that a reviewer can’t understand basic parts of speech and was hateful enough to make a whole review about it.

Intriguing and infuriating because evil people are getting away with so much. History shows again and again - beware of evil wrapping themselves in Christianity. If you are an evil evangelical you will hate this but for everyone else, it’s so important to listen to.

Ugh

I really loved this podcast until Andrea started blatantly demonizing Christian’s, and pushing progressive and racial issues! This podcast is no place for that, it’s supposed to be true crime not political bias!

I really like this show but I think the hosts focuses far too much on her own story. I wish she’d done a season just on her sister so she could say what she needed to say. But wholly cow listening to her talk to her subjects and CONSTANTLY coming back with, “well my sister…” I would have been so annoyed if I were her subject trying to tell my own story. She also repeats herself a lot. Recycled phrases over and over. The thing at beginning about “we believe our eyes..” cut it. We heard it. It’s too long to be a tag line.

I’ve loved this season, and am genuinely confused at the amount of negative reviews. Telling that the majority of them seem to come from evangelicals… anyway- love the show! Keep up the great work!

I think she presents important arguments for medical child abuse and that it does exist and is under reported in the system. But the bias that the medical system cannot be wrong (including her comments on ivermectin and Covid) shows that she puts 100% trust in the system. Also the pronoun use is just obnoxious and sounds like she has terrible grammar. And her portrayal of Christians is ridiculous in Season 5.

I love this show!! It is compelling and well researched. The host has clearly done the research and the work to become an expert on this dark topic. This is so eye opening, especially with the Kowalski’s. Maya is the real victim, and her mom was clearly the perpetrator. I hope everyone involved in this podcast will keep trying to save these poor kids.

A very well-researched look at MBP. It feels like the biggest issue is that family court holds the goal of reunification, not really the safety of the children. Because reunification is the goal—and the wider belief that parents are the ultimate authority on how their children are raised—it does lead to children suffering if the alternative is separation. Basically, unless you can convince the wider family court system to rethink what their purpose is, nothing will really change.

The narrator in this podcast comes across as very pretentious. She assumes the worst intentions from all of her subjects. My assumption is she does this to make the story more compelling to make her podcast more dramatic. Would not recommend wasting time.

While I love the storytelling and as a Christian mental health expert, I have witnessed serious psychological issues can be distorted in the name of religion, I do not believe the host did a good job of bringing in the types of experts that would bring balance to the show. I would’ve loved to seen her interview an evangelical expert that teaches mission work at a seminary. It could’ve presented better context and more balance to her presentation of the dynamics. I definitely think this podcast brings awareness to a serious condition and it’s definitely binge worthy! But the host definitely displays some of her philosophical biases that prevents the show from being authentic journalism.

I’m so scared for those children. The fact that this case happened in my state and she took them to hospitals I go to is scary. I hope they make it to 18 and get away.

I started off thinking this would be a very good story but immediately was distracted by the “they/them” use of pronouns. I thought the story was about two sisters but it’s one woman. It just was super distracting and kept thinking who is them, then remembering the story is only about one woman. The narrator is too “woke” from me. She’s also no expert but apparently has self appointed themselves as such.

This is a pretty good show. However I first was confused why they mention Maya Kowalski in the same breath as the Blanchard case with regards to Munchausen by proxy. Maya’s mother did NOT have Munchausen. That seemed like a careless comment. Secondly there is some woke ideology in here but it isn’t as suffocating as some other podcasts. It seems the host is genuinely interested in staying “somewhat” unbiased.

It's a no for me.

I want to like this show, but the host spends what feels like more than half of the time revisiting her personal story and talking about her experiences investigating these cases, to a point that is almost intolerable. I loved the topic and stories but couldn’t bear through the constant reiteration of things we already heard

Excellent reporting, thoughtful and well researched.

I agree this podcast is biased. You accuse Netflix of presenting only one side of Maya’s story but you are so blatantly disdainful towards the Mother. Like Beata I would do anything to save my child. That’s all she was- a Mother trying to save her child. Have some respect

I really wanted to like this podcast. It has an interesting topic that I feel like isn’t covered in podcasts as of right now. However it was painful to get through the first two seasons. The content is all over the place and doesn’t feel chronological. In one episode you can be hearing about someone else and then all of a sudden the topic has switched back to Megan (the hosts sister) and the main story is lost in rambles. I also found that frequently when the host wasn’t getting the exact answer she wanted from experts, she would interrupt and re word her question to get the expert to agree with her. I’m not saying her opinions are wrong but she’s very black and white and I think the experts, rightfully so, speaking in more grey-ish like terms because the topic IS very very very area. Again I really wanted to like this podcast but it’s disorganized and hosted by an armchair expert. (I do agree that her sister most likely has the disorder. I’m not disagreeing with that. But the podcast flow is lacking)

This podcast is a witch hunt. I was led there by my favorite podcast, Betrayal, but rest assured, this podcast is not even close to the quality and storytelling of Betrayal. The first season is interesting, but Andrea’s bias and disdain for her own sister becomes more and more apparent with every episode. She uses the reputation of well-respected law enforcement officials and other professionals as guests to essentially accuse mothers of abusing their children and create doubt around mothers seeking care for their ill children. She criticizes Netflix’s documentary as being hurtful to a cause while simultaneously creating harm to another - by creating suspicions of guilt and foul play of women who suffer miscarriages, pre-term births, or have sick children. As if we don’t already have enough threats to the protections of women in this country. I can understand how bringing awareness to underreported MBP is an important undertaking, but advocating in this careless manner is scary and infuriating.

I cannot love this show enough! Such important topics, your approach is really lovely 💜💜

I'm a healthcare professional and I am very impressed by the careful thought and investigative technique you bring to covering this vitally important topic. I feel your pain over losing the sister you thought you knew, but grateful that you have devoted your career to unveiling medical child abuse in the hopes of getting people to protect children first. I hope this laudable mission leads to healing and restoration of your family when your niece and nephew are old enough to seek you and their grandparents.

I loved this podcast and listened intently until politics and woke turned me off.

The elephant in the room is that Texas has managed to strip women of rights and support and is finding new and inventive ways to set the law on them. THAT’S what’s in the water. And when she says, “If only we could get fathers to hear this message…”??? What if we got fathers to hear that their children’s mother needs support? Like, EVER? Of course children need to be protected. The best way to do this is to support parents, not wait until they have irreparably harmed their children and then take that mother away.

I have really enjoyed every season of this podcast. The topic is fascinating and disturbing and the stories are well researched. I think the show gets some things wrong in terms of ancillary topics (eg , mission work) but different opinions are fine and I don’t have to agree with everything about the podcast in order to like it.

***Edit- I just made it to S3E19. The below was before I heard it. Still suspicious. Honestly listening to this makes me want to know if the dad was ever investigated in the wife’s death. She was found with an IV, hanged and the gun was missing? He gives a lot of information about why they didn’t know where she was but never looked for her? Very suspicious to me. Also, if she did indeed do it to herself, maybe she felt like she couldn’t stop hurting her kid and that was her escape. Just a lot of strange things with the mother and father going on besides the obvious. ALSO, someone should do a documentary on Netflix documentaries and how biased they are.