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Right with you. I’ve watched them manipulate my wife and guilt her into so much stress over such things. (I’m a bit to much of an asshole (with classical stat
by tobmlt 7y ago
Right with you. I’ve watched them manipulate my wife and guilt her into so much stress over such things. (I’m a bit to much of an asshole (with classical statistics training at the level of grad school econometrics) to be anything other than bemused at best by their bald faced claims)
No amount of deconstructing the studies and deconstructing the health care we receive can mitigate the doctor who tells her our son needs x and not y.
Not to say that scientific medicine isn’t amazing. Just saying sometimes it gets ahead of itself.
- dabbledash 7y agoYeah, I found actual medical professionals (even the lactation consultants I dealt with) to be pretty chill about breastfeeding and formula. Online mommy culture is a scourge though, and is ridiculous about the benefits (real, imagined, and wildly overstated) of breastfeeding.
- skinkestek 7y agoMight be a reaction to the eighties. My mom tells me how doctors were pushing that mothers should wipe their breasts with antibac before babies could have milk. With stories like that as background you can see why people are sceptical.