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I suppose the point being made is that enough time has passed for the study to have been properly validated; as the parent comment points out, lots of issues ha

• lostcolony 9y ago
  That, and the fact it then isn't newsworthy. A single data point isn't science. It -might- be news, if it was a super recent data point (though, obviously, requires peer review and replication). This is neither.
  • ColanR 9y ago
    Old stuff is reposted here all the time. If it's interesting to the HN community, it's news.
• jfaucett 9y ago
  > as the parent comment points out, lots of issues have been found with it. I'm not familiar with the research here so I can't say either way. But a preliminary google scholar search turned up a lot of articles which seem to suggest that breastfeeding has a bunch of positive impacts on numerous intelligence and general well-being metrics. The article itself has been cited 209 times according to google scholar [1], and this study [2] (cited 400+ some odd times) seems to accept some of the propositions made in this paper as givens. Anyway, I think it would have been interesting if the null hypotheses here weren't rejected. I kind of expect evolution to have optimized human breastmilk over alternatives for infant development. 1. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cites=15094195751510081699&as_sdt=2005&sciodt=0,5&hl=en https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cites=1509419575151008169... 2. http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/129/3/e827.short http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/129/3/e827.sho...
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