There's an awful lot of it in the media...
UK newspaper, The Daily Mail, is notorious for sensationalising out-of-context findings from medical studies. However, earlier this year, the UK press caused a massive furore when they used confirmation bias to hype up a paper published in the British Medical Journal entitled, "Six months of exclusive breastfeeding: How good is the evidence?"
Relying purely on breastfeeding for the first six months might not be best for babies, experts in the UK have warned.
Now a new review says that breastfed babies should be weaned before they're six months old.
Scientists from University College London say children not introduced to solid food early enough could suffer from iron deficiency, or become prone to allergies. The research, however, contradicts government advice. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-12189183
This was nicely deconstructed as misrepresentation on the part of the BMJ paper and further misrepresentation on the part of the Associated Press by infant feeding consultant Charlotte Thomas, aka The Analytical Armardillo, in her blog: http://www.analyticalarmadillo.co.uk/2011/01/starting-solids-facts-behind-todays.html and widely refuted by authorities such as UNICEF and the UK Department of Health.
An article published in the British Medical Journal (BMJ) is being reported in the media as questioning whether exclusive breastfeeding for 6 months is appropriate for UK babies. This article is not based on new evidence but rather a re-analysis of older evidence, much of which is the same as that used as the basis for weaning recommendations from the World Health Organization (WHO) and the UK’s Departments of Health (DH). http://www.unicef.org.uk/BabyFriendly/News-and-Research/News/UNICEF-UK-response-to-media-reports-questioning-the-recommendation-to-introduce-solid-food-to-babies-at-6-months/