TOTEM AND TABOO REVISITED: awful and fertile rise of new SUPERSTITIONS

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An outraging, resentful file against Huxley's book Brave new worldis endorsed into the below quoted site moreover against its search and crave to warn the "sacrifice" of  motherhood, home, family, freedom, even love in the name of an universal [artificial] happiness: BRAVE  NEW  WORLD? A Defence Of Paradise-Engineering (look below some quotes of it. 

	Above, maternal behavior is tenderly expressed by both mother monkeys, Rose and Olga, who hug, groom, and nurse their babies, Roo and Ole.
	Below, radio stimulation of Rose for ten seconds in the mesencephalon evoked a rage response expressed by self-biting and abandoning her baby, Roo. For the next ten minutes Rose has lost all her maternal interest (above), ignoring the appealing calls of Roo who seeks refuge with the other mother. Rose is sucking her foot and still ignoring her baby.

1. a description, an anthropological and even ergonomic description, concerning one, this strange one, of the various ways how to manage babies' sleep: the why and how and exactly when and by whom this strange idea could arise and become so worldwide spread. To lie prone? However this enough already warning situation displays another more “absurdâ€� fact,  a new more weird query arousing from: how is it possible that a quite new, not traditional at all, an even strange custom as “face-down babiesâ€�, could become an ineffaceable myth, something as a ruthless superstition?
2. But here it should be added another consideration and example, regarding how all facts can be chained beyond the times, encircling generations and - true or artificial - knowledge. An Anthropologist - i.e. a scientist not a whoever commonplace uninformed person - said that he would have been compliant to doctor’s prescription.
3.  Instead a doctor considered - at least - APPALLING such assertion, and answered that a liable doctor should NEVER  take the responsibility (and so: culpability) to instigate some one to do something doubtful for his own feelings: deming that a serious competence has to prescribe only what can propose logic choices, or rather: the choices better fitting to this precise situation and liking.
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Prone - Body Position and Disposition of Will

Il faut garder sa liberte' d'esprit et croire que DANS LA NATURE L'ABSURDE SUIVANT NOS THEORIES N'EST PAS TOUJOURS IMPOSSIBLE (Claude Bernard)

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At an - horrible - sample of fake scientific mentality, comportamentists stated that protective behaviors may be acquired through the mechanism of operant conditioning (learning) since such "scientists" do prefer higher-quality prformances instead to ... at least living and healthy children and opportune development. In opposition to Lasst mir Zeit =Allow me MY time - they do prefer and teach a gross motor development (Denver Development Scale), even preferring to have more babies died but many (?) till birth "advanced" in such a grosser motor development? What strange "scientists" are these who assert without any shame that protective behaviors have to be learnt through the mechanism of operant conditioning (learning) ???

Sleeping on the back retards motor-skill development
The incidence of SID has fallen considerably since recommendations to put babies to sleep on their backs were introduced . It seems however that this position may cause a slight slowing in the first phase of motor skill development . This effect , which is however slight , maybe minimised by placing the newborn prone when awake . The recommendations for back sleeping should however be absolutely respected . Doctors should be aware of the way in which the position influences motor skill development in its first phases to avoid useless examinations into delay of motor skills.
Objective. Several studies have found that back- or side-sleeping infants who are inexperienced in prone sleeping higher risk for sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) when they turn to prone or are placed prone for sleep compared with infants who normally sleep prone. Moreover, such inexperienced infants [what a paradox in terms!] are more likely to be found in the face-down position at death after being placed prone compared with SIDS infants who are experienced in prone sleeping. We hypothesized that lack of experience in prone sleeping is associated with increased difficulty in changing head position to avoid an asphyxiating sleep environment.
Methods. We studied 38 healthy infants while they slept prone. Half of these were experienced and half were inexperienced in prone sleeping. To create a mildly asphyxiating microenvironment, we placed infants to sleep prone with their faces covered by soft bedding. We recorded inspired CO₂ (CO_2I), electrocardiogram, and respiration, and we videotaped head movements. Also, we assessed gross motor development (Denver Development Scale).
Results. When sleeping prone, with their faces covered by bedding, all infants experienced mild asphyxia as a result of rebreathing. All aroused and attempted escape from this environment. Infants used 3 stereotyped head-repositioning strategies. The least effective was nuzzling into the bedding with occasional brief head lifts. More effective were head lifts combined with a head turn. Some infants, however, could turn only to 1 side, right or left. Infants who were inexperienced in prone sleeping had less effective protective behaviors than experienced infants. Infant age did not correlate with efficacy of protective behaviors. Infants who were experienced in prone sleep had advanced gross motor development compared with inexperienced infants.
Conclusion. Infants who are inexperienced in prone sleeping have decreased ability to escape from asphyxiating sleep environment when placed prone. These observations potentially explain the increased risk associated with prone sleep in infants who are inexperienced. The increased occurrence of the face-down position in such infants is also potentially explained. These findings suggest that airway protective behaviors may be acquired through the mechanism of operant conditioning (learning).

Influence of Sleep Position Experience on Ability of Prone-Sleeping Infants to Escape From Asphyxiating Microenvironments by Changing Head Position byDorota A. Paluszynska, MD, Kathleen A. Harris and Bradley T. Thach, MD. From the Edward Mallinckrodt Department of Pediatrics, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, Missouri

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By the way an alike hightening of death rate happens on another trial: the TeenScreen

TeenScreen was established in Tulsa, Oklahoma in 1997. According to a 2003 Tulsa World newspaper article, Mike Brose, executive director of the Mental Health Association in Tulsa, stated:
 - To the best of my knowledge, this is the highest number of youth suicides we've ever had during the school year -- a number we find very frightening.
Psychiatrists are even coming forth saying TeenScreen is unworkable. Nathaniel Lehrman says:
- The claim by the director of the TeenScreen Program that her program would significantly reduce suicides is unsupported by the data. Indeed, such screenings would probably cause more harm than good. It is impossible, on cursory examination, or on the basis of the Program's brief written screening test, to detect suicidality or 'mental illness', however we define it.

And then: why is it so hard to stop such practices in spite of any warning against?

1. It has to be explained why this compelling"fashion"� - the obliged face-down, prone position - should scientifically be refused.
2. But here has to be added an Anthropological consideration and put on the critical Anthropological problem: why, the prone position lasted so longtime as a MYTH?
3.  Here below - as in the Congress Poster - articles and also excerpts of private exchange of mails should be presented to disentangle the consequences of the "face-down sleeping position", apparently looking as a banal directive instead evolving in a very serious and distressing problem: the bulk increase of Sudden Infants Death Syndrome (SIDS)

Health Information & Media
SIDS: 'Back to Sleep' Campaign Safe Sleep for Your Baby: Reduce the Risk of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
SIDS: 'Back to Sleep' Campaign

                                                                           we tell the child
                                                                         that work and play
                                                                         reality and fantasy
                                                                      science and imagination
                                                                           sky and earth
                                                                         reason and dream
                                                                             are things

                                                                     that do not belong together ...

                                                                                          No way. The hundred is there.