Nancy,

I believe that ghostwriting is when the author of the study is paid to put
his or her name on the study.  The author is usually well-known in the field.
The author does not participate in the study and in some cases never ever sees
what he/she supposedly wrote.  The author is used for his/her name in order to
get the study published.  I do believe that ethically this is a cause for
great concern.  I do not think we are talking about the same thing because I did
not see 70%--the 50% figure is bad enough.

The book that concerned Montsanto was published, but only because the author
was able to find someone else willing to publish despite Monsanto's threats to
sue.

I thought the Ad Council situation was already decided???  Funny thing is
that I misunderstood the whole campaign from the beginning.  I was told or
thought I was told on this list that the campaign would be about the risks of infant
formula--in fact I was chastized for my pessimisitic attitude in regard to
the government's support of breastfeeding and that the Ad campaign would show me
how much the government supports breastfeeding.   I now realize that the ad
campaign is about the risks of not breastfeeding.  Which in my book is a
different slant entirely and not the same as the risks of infant formula. Of course,
I think I wasn't too far off the mark in regard to the government's support
of breastfeeding.

I find it remarkably short-sighted by our governing bodies such as the WHO to
have two polices on hiv-positive mothers and breastfeeding--one policy for
developing nations and another one for developed nations.  The use of two
policies guarantees that formula feeding will be the preferred answer to hiv,
despite the heavy risks.  It is interesting that John Hopkins as well as the US
Government as well as Nestle of Japan own patents on the use of a human milk
component (not genetically engineered) to inactivate the hiv virus.  Some
well-known hiv/aids researchers work for companies that are using these components to
inactivate hiv/aids, treat the symptoms of hiv/aids, or for use in potential
vaccinations.  In fact one of the reasons for use of human lactoferrin
(genetically engineered) in infant formula, is to prevent or treat hiv/aids in
infants--based on the fact that human lactoferrin inactivates the hiv virus.  So
progress, optimism, depends on your point of view.
Valerie W. McClain, IBCLC

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