Freddy, I already knew that the fact that the sun always comes up after the rooster crows does not mean that the rooster causes the sun to rise. I think you might be implying I am a DIMWIT of some sort, which really hurts my feelings!!
I also think it is a specious argument when you always claim that statistics are essentially meaningless whenever someone cites them to prove a point with which you disagree. I think it's a disengenuous way to deflect other points of view which are valid but which do not coincide with yours.
I also think the way that you ridiculed my statement about air pollution and Sudden Infant Death Syndrome--"Christine, your infatuation with junk-science is endless. First of all, these wizards were talking about 'indoor air pollution' and not outside air quality"--was designed to be condescending but fails because your assumptions are totally inaccurate.
I cannot reprint an entire article here because of copyright laws, but my source was a "Los Angeles Times" piece reporting on a federal study published two weeks ago in a National Institutes of Health journal. While the study had several limitations, and the SIDS Alliance pointed out that no causal link between pollution and SIDS can be proven until research on the tissues of babies who died is conducted, the study was DEFINITELY about outside air quality, not "indoor air pollution" as you alleged.
In fact, federal scientists discovered "that in cities with low particulate pollution, one of every 1,000 babies died of SIDS, compared with 1.13 in cities with medium pollution and 1.26 in highly polluted cities . . . The researchers found that babies in the highly polluted cities were 10 percent more likely to die of SIDS even when diferences in birth weight, race, smoking by the mother during pregnancy and temperature--all factors that contribute to SIDS--were factored out."
My own personal opinion is that SIDS is very complicated and there are definitely a lot of factors involved--I think that's why it's referred to as a SYNDROME. One of the reasons I chose breast feeding and the family bed when I had a baby is that these choices radically reduce the chances of having a SIDS baby. There is room here for all sorts of opinions. However, I think it is a little unfair to basically slander someone's sources, or their logic, simply because you don't agree with their politics.
Even though you seem to be advocating a pro-slavery approach to life, one that I suspect most people writing on this thread do not condone, everyone seems to be bending over backwards to be fair to you. I would hope that we could keep all the discussion here civil in the same way.
You are acting really grumpy, Freddy!!! |
