Dear all:

The writer of the article did NOT use research to bolster her argument --- there were no 
citations whatsoever in her article. I have not read metaanalyses that discredit the main 
findings of the risks of formula use.  The AAP statement is based on many professionals 
who have analyzed articles over the course of decades --- and she left out the long list of 
STRONG evidence for a huge list of diseases for mother and baby alike and picked up one 
of the suggestive evidence.  You will NEVER see these articles take on the strong 
evidence.  You will NEVER see them quote the specific meta-analyses or the specific 
studies unless it is the study that was funded by the industry that had an inadequate 
sample size.  For all of you to know --- you can stack the deck to get no results merely 
by picking a sample size that is too small to detect a difference of biologic significance.  
It is the easiest trick in the book.  

This is standard formula company tactics.  Discredit the science using all sorts of 
unscientific logic twisting manueveurs, discredit the scientists as "zealots", claim 
breastfeeding is hard (which actually usually means parenting is hard so use formula so 
you can delegate your parenting responsibilies), liberated women who work shouldn't 
have to breastfeed because income generating work in the office is more important than 
child rearing....

Basically, this is a slander of the AAP committee and again and again this type of slander 
is tolerated in the media.  Andrea Peyser in a New York Post article a few years back 
wrote an article where she simply MADE UP A QUOTE from a New York psychiatrist 
stating that this psychiatrist thought the evidence was MADE UP.  The New Post never 
printed a retraction.

Best, Susan Burger

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