[YeGoblynQueenne]

>> That doesn't line up with the narrative you have about this paper. Nowhere does it say, "pediatricians should figure out how to convince families strongly willing to follow a vegetarian/vegan regimen that they're being scammed/deluded."

I'm sorry, I don't follow. Who said that?

[danShumway]

> I am inclined to believe that the problem is not that pediatricians are not adequately informed, but that parents are adhering to information from inadequate sources.

I don't think the paper supports that conclusion. The paper doesn't suggest that vegetarian weaning is itself a problem or a scam, it suggests that we don't have the educational resources available to support people who are doing it.

[YeGoblynQueenne]

I still don't understand: who said that "vegetarian weaning is itself a problem or a scam"?

[danShumway]

Maybe I don't understand your argument. If vegetarian weaning isn't a problem, then what do you mean by:

> I am inclined to believe that the problem is not that pediatricians are not adequately informed, but that parents are adhering to information from inadequate sources.

The way I heard that was, "the problem is that parents aren't listening to pediatricians when they tell them less-common weaning methods are a bad idea." Did you mean something else?

I'm thinking about that in conjunction with your original statement, which to me sounds more directly like it's making that argument:

> Yes, the problem is not dairy vs. non-dairy, it is with feeding kids who have been weaned a vegetarian or vegan diet in general.

Is that statement not saying that vegetarian weaning is a problem?

But if we're arguing past each other, I apologize. I guess I'm not sure what your claim is. Do you mean that pediatricians are informed, and they are giving adequate advice about how to do successful vegetarian weaning, and they aren't hostile to the practice, but that parents are just ignoring it anyway and trying to do weaning on their own? But this paper still spends zero time trying to talk about how to convince the public to trust their pediatricians, so that also doesn't seem like it's the conclusion that the author is going for.

Again, apologies for misinterpreting you, but if that's not what you're trying to say then I'm missing what you are trying to say.