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@kaferty I can't find a free version of the full study. But I suspect they are grouping premies or complicated pregnancies/births with less complicated c-sections. Or maybe, they are just flat out wrong, it is a big and unusual claim. I honestly wouldn't stress about it. Also to put it in...

@jamesprayer That sounds like a great way to approach things. I am hoping me and wife can sleep in shifts so she won't be too exhausted while I am on leave.

@jamesprayer That's good to hear. I was doubting if I would be useful after just a couple weeks and initial recovery. My HR rep asked me if I was going to take my 6 weeks all at once, it felt like a trick question.

@jessie_jones_godlover Ah that makes a little more sense. Still a little surprising, but not as far fetched.

@damacri This seems like a red flag that they are doing something weird (most likely unintentionally), SES like income and education has a strong correlation with everything, for such a large combination of studies to find no relationship is suspicious to me. I'm blindly guessing, but maybe...

@lhealy This is helpful to hear. Thank you!

@phyominaye This will be my first, I would rather just spend time with him and never return if I could. Everything else seems like a compromise.

I am in a very lucky position where I have an employer that offers 6 weeks of paid leave and is flexible with my return date. This leave can be used throughout the first year after birth. I am thinking about taking 8 weeks of total leave as soon as the baby is born. A nice round 2 months. Then...

@dmm CDC/state/local health departments puts out harm reduction guidelines all the time. This gives practitioners lots of cover. No one is suing doctors because they prescribe a person PrEP to prevent HIV, but unfortunately still got infected or transmitted it to their partner.

@thepaintedbeat She says we should spend more money on HIV prevention as it would reduce more suffering and saved more lives.

@cathon Well, most people get the practical definition right, but understanding the true statistical definition is important too. It shows they can assess the body of science and not blindly accept the latest p-hacked study.

@moriarty777 I would love for a doctor to comment on their training on statistics and research methods. This is kinda cheeky, but without looking it up, describe to me what a p-value or a confidence interval tells you. That aside, appealing to authority usually works if you are not trained to...

@thdev Honestly, just review their methods yourself. Your request for a meta analysis for a pandemic that started just 3 years ago comes off as disingenuous. Do you also want them to conduct an RCT on Earth-2 to confirm their findings?

@candycehill Shocking... so shocking, because it is a smear and taken out of context. The sentence right after your highlighted one explains: Public health has fixed resources, in developing countries doubly so. She is arguing that we could save more lives, and prevent more suffering if we...

@lizlovesalotofthings I'm a statistician and how doctors talk about medical studies sucks major ass. A doctor recommended a diet to lower the risk of autism for our baby and when I looked up the source study of the diet, it was only done in rats! Our doctor read the study wrong and her...

@vlisco Yeah, remember that as well. I found that to be one of the most egregious lies they paint about Oster, it had to be willful too since in some cases they cited the same studies as Oster, only just saying inverse of her claim. Sadly, I think this very common. Public health community is...

@churchface The obligatory context for the future of this comment section. Oster is controversial because she said "some" drinking during pregnancy is not harmful (in context, it was a question she had after she had a drink before she knew she was pregnant, she wanted to know the effects alcohol...