This post to Lactnet by Chris Hafner-Eaton back on February 26 2001
made quite an impression on me:
http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/scripts/wa.exe?A2=ind0102D&L=lactnet&P=R7286&I=-3

She argues that artificial feeding does *cause* illness and death, if
we look at the evidence using the same epidemiology that results in
believing that smoking causes cancer.

Warning: the post is confrontational in tone & content; it was a
response to a doubting screenwriter on the list (remember that?).

In that same week on Lactnet there was discussion about relative risk
vs. causality -- some great posts that are worth re-reading,
including one by Joan Edelstein.

Margaret
Longmont, CO

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