You know breastfeeding is sacred and beyond the lens of scientific objectivity when one of our most respected science writers doesn't seriously critique a study purported to show further “benefits” of breastfeeding. Even Carl Zimmer cannot resist the lure of lactation. At the risk of once again losing out on the annual award for Best Female Science Writer, I must ask whether Zimmer's recent article in the New York Times strikes anyone else as less than a probing, unbiased perspective on empirical evidence