>Nikki, I could not find the title or text of the article, only a
>journalist's recap of it, based on an interview with (apparently) one of
>the lead authors.  Is the article itself available on line?
>
>Rachel Myr
>Kristiansand, Norway
>ugh, dreading fallout of this


Rachel, Nikki is referring to the same paper I discussed yeaterday:

Colen, C.G., Ramey, D.M., Is Breast Truly Best? Estimating the 
Effects of Breastfeeding on Long-term Child Health and Wellbeing in 
the United States Using Sibling Comparisons, Social Science & 
Medicine (2014), doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2014.01.027.


It has also been disected by our NHS site that presents the news:

http://www.nhs.uk/news/2014/02February/Pages/Breast-milk-no-better-than-bottled-researcher-claims.aspx?app_data=%7B%22pi%22%3A%2253635_1393521903_7736820%22%2C%22pt%22%3A%22twitter%22%7D

I think my analysis raises better questions than the NHS's, though 
mine is briefer,  because the NHS does not understand the weakness of 
the description of breastfeeding (no indication of excusivity) and 
the NHS does not understand the oddity of looking at something like 
'behavioural compliance' as an outcome.

Heather Neil, UK
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