Don't you get tired of stupid media?

I get so frustrated with idiotic reports that I have mostly given up on reading news papers, magazines, or watching TV.
What has me all annoyed today?
This little article on Slate, which I read because I happen to be a co-sleeping parent.
Is Sharing Your Bed With Your Baby a Good Idea?

In the article it talks about a report saying that it isn't a good idea. Aside from the fact that Dr. Sears has some amazing research that is the complete opposite, based on research, not altered statistics, this article is very biased and so obviously not good.

The study she is quoting from does not state that it is dangerous to co-sleep, and does not, in fact, differentiate the difference between crib death and co-sleeping death. They call all deaths, including couch, bed and crib, death in bed.

In her article she states that more than half of the infants deaths (that occur in while sleeping, not other types of death) are from co-sleeping. However, it is including deaths from sleeping on a couch but takes out the factor of strangulations from defective cribs. (hmm, that is suspicious) If 80% of those that are not in cribs are from co-sleeping, than actually it is less than half the deaths are from co-sleeping. Which would put not sleeping with parents at a higher risk of death. And, if you remove the deaths that were from drunk or drugged parents, you are going to find a MUCH safer option from co-sleeping.

Here is an article from a different view point that actually shows the researchers notes about not being accurate: Baby In Parent's Bed in Danger?
Nothing in this research really shows that it is more dangerous. There are no stats on how many parents do co-sleep and have babies die compared to the crib sleepers and their death rate. It just isn't done.

What needs be done is safety instructions for co-sleeping. The deaths from co-sleeping tend to come from suffocation from too much pillows and blankets or being trapped between the mattress and wall or frame. If parents were taught how to keep the bed safe as much as they are taught to keep the crib safe, things would be different. Also, if parents did not co-sleep when they were drunk or drugged or have sleeping issues that would prevent a lot of deaths.

Co-sleeping is done around the world. It is actually done more around the world than it is not done.

Education, not stupidity and alarms, is what is needed.

(For the record, I am not telling people how they should parent, just that people shouldn't tell others how to parent using stupid, biased reports)