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Newborn dies after mother drinks raw milk during pregnancy (arstechnica.com)
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A newborn baby has died in New Mexico from a Listeria infection that state health officials say was likely contracted from raw (unpasteurized) milk that the baby’s mother drank during pregnancy.

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[-] lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com 0 points 20 hours ago

Biases & fallacy of incomplete evidence are not reasonable. Their willful ignorance is completely blameworthy.

[-] cynar@lemmy.world 1 points 19 hours ago

My point is that it wasn't necessarily willful ignorance. During pregnancy, women get an insane amount of information and warnings dumped on them. Filtering out the useless crap from the absolutely critical is not an easy task. That's also without accounting for hormone induced "baby brain" throwing cognitive processes out of kilter.

It's terrifyingly easy to make mistakes of this type, even for the intelligent. Saying the baby is better off dead is cruel and victim blaming.

[-] lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

By the time they're pregnant, they've been on this planet long enough to know basic information literacy. The warnings of this fringe trend are commonplace. Rationalizing this idiocy is pathetic.

Saying the baby is better off dead is cruel and victim blaming.

and true. No fucks given: opinion of "cruel and victim blaming" discarded.

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