[OnyxCougar]

Originally posted by juju

It reminds me of how everyone on the planet started insisting that I put mashed up rice cereal into my 4 week old daughter's formula to help her sleep better. Any cursory amount of research would show it to be faulty and potentially bad for them, and yet I cannot seem to meet a person in this region that doesn't believe it.

Why do people believe weird things?

Maybe because some things happen sometimes that flies in the face of research and common sense.

Mixing that rice cereal up in formula was the ONLY thing that kept Bryan asleep more than 4 hours at a time at night. He was waking up hungry. Put some rice in there in an 8 oz bottle right before bedtime and BAM! Instant 6 - 8 hour nights of sleep.

Researchers say it doesn't work.

But it does. And it does for alot of people. Sometimes those "old wives" knew exactly what they were doing, "science" be damned.