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John Self @john-self.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Incredible chart (from otherwise depressing news story about bad advice being given to new parents) showing how cot deaths fell by 50% in the first year after the 'Back to Sleep' campaign was launched, and have continued to fall since. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Chart of sudden infant deaths. Numbers are between 1,000 and 1,500 every years from 1979 to 1990, then after the 1991 introduction of the 'Back to Sleep' campaign (advising parents to put their baby to sleep on its back), fall immediately to below 500 and are now around the 200-a-year mark.

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divster.bsky.social @divster.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

There was a radio five phone in about this today I wonder if people spreading the misinformation are grifters, idiotic, conspiracy fools or some ungodly Venn. It’s the latter isn’t it?

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