Dear all:

In light of the slew of the poor science education that permits people to lay out flawed 
claims that breastfeeding is not beneficial --- I am putting this link to an old classic that I 
found via Wikipedia.  If you read this treatise which is on smoking, you will see how limited 
the current spate of so-called "evidence of no effect" is.  Whatever happened to science 
education?  Journalists who write about science should have at least a basic education in 
science and its methods.

The article below is from the 1960s and it beautifully outlines how to build a case for 
causality.

http://www.scielosp.org/pdf/bwho/v83n10/v83n10a18.pdf

Best, Susan Burger

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