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  • The Odds ratio in your research is tiny, and the paper I linked shows that a pacifier has the same effect. You’re ignoring the underlying reasons (such as lighter sleeping) and just looking at poor conclusions of research as though it’s fact.

    The ample evidence is the correlation, which is weak. If you think that pacifiers and breastfeeding both reduce risk of SIDS, then logically it’s a phenomenon of an underlying driver and not breastfeeding per se. That’s correlation, not causation.










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    2 years ago

    Those 4 styles are really poorly written. They’re not MECE and I’d be happy to write them off as pseudo science, or even a marketing scheme for a book based on that blog post.

    If there are 4 styles where 3 are wrong and ‘this book teaches you the correct 1’ I get nervous.