• child
• bottle feeding

Torres writes “Bottle feeding in the first six months of age is extremely harmful for babies. There is a high risk of infection because of the use of contaminated water or bottles that results in diarrhoea, malnutrition and increased mortality”.¹ I have been trying for years, unsuccessfully, to find evidence in support of this proposed causal mechanism.² What is the epidemiological basis for the second sentence? If JECH editors think there is a sufficiently reliable database, perhaps they could commission a literature review? The careless dissemination of plausible untruths does nothing to reduce infant mortality, but actively closes down the area to scientific inquiry and new thinking.