Another day, another study claiming that breastfed babies are vastly intellectually superior to their poor, bedraggled dim-witted simpleton bottle-fed pals. This study, by the University of Oxford no less, involving almost 5,000 children in England, concluded that those breastfed for at least a year were 38 per cent more likely to get a high pass — the equivalent of an A or A* — in their English GCSE exam compared to those who weren’t breastfed.
The authors claimed they took into account the blindingly obvious problem with the study: that women who breastfed their children for a full year were highly likely to come from higher socio-economic groups with all of the myriad benefits that brings.
