http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/labnotes/archive/2009/01/14/eat-cereal-have-boys-on-second-thought.aspxWhen scientists in England reported last April that what a woman eats around the time she conceives can affect whether she has a boy or a girl —the headline-making finding of the study, titled “You Are What Your Mother Eats,” was that women who ate breakfastenCommunityServer 2.1 SP2 (Debug Build: 2.18)http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/labnotes/archive/2009/01/14/eat-cereal-have-boys-on-second-thought.aspx#879106Thu, 15 Jan 2009 01:40:12 GMT544c64cf-7058-4151-925a-a0fd041e73dd:879106StatManXX<p>Ioannidis published two insturctive papers in 2005. In JAMA, he noted that randomized clinical trials replicated around 80% of the time. Observational studies (the Mathews et al. study is ovservational) failed to replicate ~80% of the time. A consumer should not believe a claim from an observation study until it is replicate. Who funds these studies anyway?</p> Blog: Lab Notes