Just to start with, as mathematician she did a bad job in this review. She of all researchers should know about how to group stable data and variables. Breastfeeding is not the variable, but the stable factor. Not breastfeeding in any given way (method, product, ...) are variables that will or will not change the outcome. 
Second, she should also know that human behaviour and biology will not always fit into certain kinds of research, simply because you can't double-blind the way a child eats. 

Sticking to the so-called golden standard of research will for ever disregard the specifics of infant and child feeding and care research. In my neck of the world we call that quite pointy ''trowing away the baby with his bath-tub water''.

Warmly,

Gonneke, IBCLC, MOM, being a bit grumpy in the very early morning in southern Netherlands.

--- On Tue, 4/28/09, Dia L. Michels <[log in to unmask]> wrote:



 <http://abcnews.go.com> ABC News


http://abcnews.go.com/Health/story?id=7424844&page=1


Are Some Breast-Feeding Claims Overblown?


Mathematicians, Moms Question If Every Breast-Feeding Benefit Claim Holds
Water


By LAUREN COX
ABC News Medical Unit

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