Letters to the Editor
agfischer
Published Letters: 2
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Men with Bow Ties Make Me Uncomfortable
[Read the article: Broadsheet's year-end roundup]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Since, men apparently get to have a say in women's clothing options, I'd like to throw my non-gender specific hat in the ring, and suggset that we eliminate bow ties as a choice of clothing for men. Seriously, if you can name one guy who wears a bow tie without eliciting some deep-seated suspcision over his reasons for wearig such, I will remove my suggestion and accept my fate as a parcipant in a pro-bow tie world.
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Patient, inform thyself.
[Read the article: Ricki Lake's "awesome" vagina]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"Statistics show that home birth is safer by far than a hospital birth as measured by infant mortality.
At the risk of laziness, I will simply say that there are many obvious ways that that statistic could be flawed."
I can point out one way in which this could be flawed. Most, if not all women, whose pregnancies indicate that there will be complications during the birthing process, will choose to have their children in hospitals, thereby skewing the hospital’s safety record.
I don't think hospital birth or home birth is the correct answer for everyone. I do think that placing too much emphasis on statistics is dangerous. In theory, doctors could treat patients relying only statistics, but this would fail to account for the myriad of subtle differences that are possible between people and that make one person’s penicillin cure another person’s death sentence. Point being, the ability to make an informed choice should be more important than the ultimate choice.