Scientists say...oh, do they?

I've been catching up on the news.

First of all, did you know that people who trim back their pubic hair have more of a chance of picking up a sexually transmitted disease? No, I didn't know that either. Do I believe it? Not for one cotton-pickin moment. But apparently it's a scientific fact. Scientists have done research on it.

Monday is a slow news days, so you can usually find stories like this on tinternet or in the newspapers.

About ten years ago I came across a news item headlined 'The Golden Lie.' Apparently, in a desperate attempt to stop women drinking alcohol during pregnancy, a group of doctors came up with the idea that even one drink - one glass of Prosecco - would cause your child to be born with serious birth defects. Heaven help us, I've met pregnant brides who refused to have a glass of champagne at their own wedding for fear of damaging their unborn baby. There's a wee difference between the vast majority of  women and those who are likely to produce children with foetal alcohol syndrome. But it seems women are too stupid to understand the difference.

Now it looks like there's a problem with Caesarian births: more and more women are asking for 'surgical' births in Western countries. It's up to 25% in some places. Personally, I've never squeezed a bowling ball through my pelvis and I don't fancy trying it, so I tend to sympathise with women who opt for a painless delivery. But that, it seems, leads to a narrowing of the birth canal in these women and their daughters. It's about evolution. This may have been studied over about - oof - 5 years. It's not that 'natural' childbirth is likely to disappear...I'm not sure what I planned to write next, except that, according to scientists, Caesarians are bad. Very bad.

And yet again, I have to say to 'scientists': get your noses out of women's vaginas. Give us some facts or get the hell out of Dodge.