On 1/9/24 6:40 PM, ScottW wrote:

“We are concerned about breastfeeding promotion that praises
breastfeeding as the ‘natural’ way to feed infants,” wrote Jessica Martucci of the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of
Medicine and Anne Barnhill of Johns Hopkins University in the journal Pediatrics. “Promoting breastfeeding as ‘natural’ may be ethically problematic, and, even more troublingly, it may bolster this belief
that ‘natural’ approaches are presumptively healthier.”

Martucci and Barnhill explained that in the 1950s and 1960s, a
movement of women sought to promote breastfeeding in the wake of
advances in medical formula technology — an approach that the
researchers find “ethically problematic” because it may “support biologically deterministic arguments about the roles of men and women
in the family” — for example, “that women should be the primary caretakers of children.”

“Referencing the ‘natural’ in breastfeeding promotion, then, may inadvertently endorse a controversial set of values about family life
and gender roles, which would be ethically inappropriate,” they
state.

The researchers were also concerned that such rhetoric “may
ultimately challenge public health’s aims in other contexts,
particularly childhood vaccination.”

I'm concerned that this epic level of stupidity may ultimately be our greatest challenge.

Your subject line misstates the situation, so maybe go easy on claims of
epic stupidity.

https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Unintended-Consequences-of-Invoking-the-“Natural”-Martucci-Barnhill/2952fa2ab69cd8b1447cd788df6c116cd5eade84

"TLDR

Promoting breastfeeding as “natural” may be ethically problematic, and, even more troublingly, it may bolster this belief that “natural”
approaches are presumptively healthier, which may ultimately challenge
public health’s aims in other contexts, particularly childhood vaccination."

The abstract doesn't even mention gender roles, so whoever tipped off
pjmedia had to go deep to find something to complain about. To repeat:

Jordan Liles on the former Twitter:

X: Home of red-faced, angry people yelling of every conceivable subject,
"CAN YOU BELIEVE THEY DID THAT?!"

Oh, and they do this while hiding the important context about whatever
it is they're whining about, so they can still feel correct about their preconceived, comfortable feelings.

End quote.

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