Monday, March 25, 2013  Today's Study Popularization for
Mothers! Fun.  It is about a study which finds that infants are
introduced to solid foods too early if the comparison is to
expert advice on when that should happen.  But forget about the
topic for a while and just focus on the interesting question who
it is who is being talked to here and in what tone:  Moms Serve
Up Solid Food Too Soon, Study Finds    The bolds are mine.  Most
of the stuff that irritates me in this write-up is subtle but it
is still worth noticing because it is almost universal.  First,
the title tells us that "moms" serve up solid food too soon. 
The "moms" is not quite defined anywhere in the summary, though
reading it makes me assume that these were mothers who had
infants between 2005 and 2007.  But the headline says "moms." 
Because the majority of women are mothers, the headline appears
to speak to the majority of women and tells them that they are
doing it wrong.   Second, I really, really doubt that feeding
four-month-old babi