Elizabeth Brooks <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Allow me to gently steer every IBCLC to IBLCE CPC 1.2, "Provide care to
> meet clients' individual needs that is culturally appropriate and informed
> by the best available evidence," and 1.5, "Present information without
> personal bias," and suggest that before we comment on the goods-and-bads of
> a research-based article, that it be read, in full, first.
> 
> The article in question is:  Douglas, Pamela.  Excessive crying and
> gastro-oesophageal reflux in infants: misalignment of biology and culture.
> (2005) Medical Hypotheses 64, 887-898.[...]

> My translation: medicine ain't necessarily the best medicine; parents
> deserve to be taught/told infant care practices to soothe their crying
> babies and -- in the end -- it is the parents who will know what does/does
> not work for their baby.
> 
> I urge everyone to find this article and read it in full.  It is worth it.

While reading it, do also bear in mind that Medical Hypotheses is not a
peer-reviewed research journal. It is an opinion, conjecture, and
hypothesis journal. (This is, after all, the 'journal' that publishes
HIV/AIDS denialism, and even - in 2007 - a paper [1] on how it is
appropriate to call Down syndrome "mongolism" because they [supposedly]
like handicrafts, squatting or sitting cross-legged to rest, and foods
with MSG.)

I am not saying that I disagree with the quoted opinions in this
particular infant care piece; but do be aware that this is neither
research nor evidence.

Lara Hopkins

[1]
http://www.badscience.net/2007/08/observations-on-the-classification-of-
idiots/

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