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I mean, they've been doing this for decades. Don't you think their dataset is probably more informed than your speculation?

• jmchuster 5y ago
  as my dad loves to say, 3000 years of chinese medicine _can't_ be wrong
• 2muchcoffeeman 5y ago
  Well, those 2 criticisms are true. You can test that out yourself. What’s missing is that lots of things in your home are bad in water and are flammable. But how often do you need to save a baby from an evil villain by tossing their little box into a river and hope a nice childless couple who always wanted a child finds them and raises them as their own? Situations where the material is a liability are few and far between.
  • PebblesRox 5y ago
    >how often do you need to save a baby from an evil villain by tossing their little box into a river Maybe this fear explains the popularity of the Moses basket https://www.google.com/search?q=moses+basket&client=ms-android-motorola-rev2&prmd=sivxn&sxsrf=AOaemvJImIYBdzOq08izJwVoWjEE3TCzwQ:1640152945612&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj45czt3fb0AhUxmHIEHf8YAlsQ_AUoAnoECAIQAg&biw=412&bih=757&dpr=1.75 https://www.google.com/search?q=moses+basket&client=ms-andro...
• dragonwriter 5y ago
  The maternity kit includes more than just the box itself, which (along with concurrent economic development and other changes) confounds study of its effects. In fact, with imitations of the maternity kit (or just the box as a sleeping spot) becoming more popular outside of Finland recently, often boosted by marketing playing on the correlation of the kit and the decline in infant mortality in Finland, a number of health entities in recent years have raised concerns that the box-as-crib itself may be a safety risk rather than an aid.