Ros : you are right that Lucas downplays the fact that babies who had
breastmilk did best of all, from the three groups, but although I share
your cynicsim at the way commercial sponsorship affects published results,
he does not go quite as far as omitting it from the full text of his paper.
Without going back to the text, from memory I recall he refers to the
previous paper which showed this, and it is in the refs at the
end...apologies if I have that wrong.

Of course it is not in the abstract, and not (presumably) in the press
release that was sent out when the most recent paper was published.

I still think the journalists are to blame - as well as everyone else!  In
anything dealing with infant feeding, the first questions on their lips
should be 'and what about the breastfed babies? what difference would bf
have made?'

Heather Welford Neil
NCT bfc Newcastle upon Tyne UK