Is there an advantage to delaying solids?

In 2001, the Word Health Organization recommended that babies be exclusively breastfed for 6 months, after which they should gradually be offered complementary foods until the majority of their diet consists of solid foods at around a year old. This replaced their earlier recommendation of exclusive breastfeeding for 4-6 months, after it was shown that [...]

Just subscribe already to his RSS feed, dammit

Because although Prometheus doesn’t post very often, just about every blogpost he does put out is a treasure.
He’s now written a 2-part series on how alternative practitioners acquire and keep their loyal subjects, er, “patients”, paying and grateful, called “How they do the voodoo that they do so well “:
Part 1 and Part 2. [...]

Post #100!

In honor of reaching my 100th blogpost, I give the stage over to you, my readers:
* Which posts of mine are your favorites? Least favorite? Is there a post format (links to interesting articles elsewhere, straight monologue, point-by-point rebuttal, Q&A) you prefer?
* What topics would you like to see more of/less of? Any new [...]

Dr. Bob vs. the MMR

As promised, here’s another installment in my critique of Dr. Bob Sears’ The Vaccine Book. This part deals with Sears’ strange attitude towards the MMR vaccine and the logic (or lack thereof) behind it.

The not-so-hidden price of breastfeeding

A recent study In the Journal of human lactation found that American women, by and large, were falling short of the goals of initiating and continuing breastfeeding set for them in the Healthy People 2010 project, a government initiative which attempts to define the methods through which good health can be enjoyed by Americans of [...]

Does having a C-section make for bad bonding?

I’m not the first person to comment on this study and I probably won’t be the last, either. Others have commented upon its most obvious flaw: the small sample size (6 women in each group) makes it impossible to determine whether the results are significant or the result of random chance. But having read the [...]

So what’s the deal with aluminum in vaccines, anyway? Part II

As I was saying in Part I, it’s important to look at what happens to the aluminum adjuvant compound particles once they enter the body, in order to understand where and how they end up.
Again, I’m not making claims to be an expert in chemistry, human physiology or even math, so if any bona [...]

So what’s the deal with aluminum in vaccines, anyway? Part I

As I was saying in my previous post, Dr. Bob Sears, in The Vaccine Book, is very concerned about the amount of aluminum in the current vaccine schedule. So concerned, in fact, that he’s made up an alternative vaccination schedule to – so he claims – expose the child to less vaccine-derived aluminum at any [...]

Have these parents have been reading Dr. Bob?

As I said in my previous post, Dr. Robert Sears has something of a fixation about aluminum in vaccines. Given that the father of the child mentioned in the article below is an antivax loon (as my dear friend Stacy likes to put it ), I don’t know that Dr. Sears is directly [...]