LInda Smith writes,

<< Poor children who had died of SIDS had much smaller =
 thymus glands than kids who had died of something else. The tragic error =
 was to conclude that enlarged thymus glands were associated with SIDS, =
 and the even more horrible result was that many babies were irradiated =
 to shrink the thymus in the mistaken belief that this could reduce the =
 risk of SIDS.  >>

I don't get it -- if the children who died of SIDS had smaller thymus glands
than children who died of something else, how on earth did they conclude that
ENLARGED thymus glands were associated with SIDS?  One would think they would
have concluded just the opposite.  Or am I missing something here?

Jan Barger