I 100% agree with Jack, it is absolutely infuriating to me to read that
public health officials, who SHOULD know better, perpetuate the kind of
cr_p I've been reading about bf and MMR and various other issues.  Sorry,
but it really gets to me as a public health person myself.  People who are
actually trained in public health should not make these mistakes, maybe
their training is in something else (and I'm including medicine and nursing
as something else) that does not enlighten them to the methods of relative
risk assessment.  All it would take is including a little bit of
epidemiology and some bf training to bring these people into the "light."
Yes, I sound like an evangelical public health bf practitioner, and I have
been called a fanatic more times than I can count.  Why do we have such
hard time with this when we've made such gains in areas like Tobacco
control?  What IS it going to take to get these "professionals" on-board?
Signed, eternally frustrated....

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