Hi - Confessing right up front that I had never heard of techdirt until the blogger I like (skeptical ob) got into this battle, and this is my first comment. So while I have no understanding of techdirt or your readers' perspectives, I do have perspective on the fight between Gina and Dr. Amy.
This fight is about Dr. Amy's efforts to combat misinformation from the "natural birth" community, which is repeated as gospel around the web, and has contributed to the preventable deaths of mothers and babies. There are lives at stake here. After witnessing 20 births, Gina confessed that perhaps she wasn't the expert on birth that she thought she was, and Dr. Amy pounced on this admission. Gina's childish reaction shows how important her credibility with the "natural birth" crowd is to her. It's much more important to her than the evidence.
This is much more than a catfight, and if you had a wife/daughter led astray by the influential Ginas of this world, as many of the skeptical ob's followers were at one time, you would understand why it's so important that Dr. Amy not be silenced because Gina can't refute Dr. Amy's rock-solid analysis of the evidence. This fight is the furthest thing from silly. Please read the hurtbyhomebirth blog if you have any more doubts.
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Passerby - NOT a silly fight.
This fight is about Dr. Amy's efforts to combat misinformation from the "natural birth" community, which is repeated as gospel around the web, and has contributed to the preventable deaths of mothers and babies. There are lives at stake here. After witnessing 20 births, Gina confessed that perhaps she wasn't the expert on birth that she thought she was, and Dr. Amy pounced on this admission. Gina's childish reaction shows how important her credibility with the "natural birth" crowd is to her. It's much more important to her than the evidence.
This is much more than a catfight, and if you had a wife/daughter led astray by the influential Ginas of this world, as many of the skeptical ob's followers were at one time, you would understand why it's so important that Dr. Amy not be silenced because Gina can't refute Dr. Amy's rock-solid analysis of the evidence. This fight is the furthest thing from silly. Please read the hurtbyhomebirth blog if you have any more doubts.
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