Future research should begin in the past
			In his commentary on the Cochrane Review, George Morley stated that it was unethical for any more  studies to have been done subsequent to one conducted in 1993, which clearly showed the benefits of delayed clamping of the umbilical cord in premature infants.  Randomized controlled studies imply that informed consent is not part of the procedure - tough luck for the parents who may then spend the rest of their lives struggling to help a handicapped child.
		My sense is that the results of myriad studies made it clear that waiting for pulsations of the cord to cease is the safest course - beginning with those of Budin in 1875, Schucking in 1877, and certainly those of Haselhorst (1929), Allmeling (1930), Frischkorn & Rucker (1939), Windle (1940, 1941, 1942, 1948), Ballentine (1947), Colozzi (1954), Gunther (1957), and Redmond et al. (1965).  The evidence from these investigations remain valid even though not made recently.
			How many more lives need to be ruined from the outset, and families left to cope with the catastrophe, while academicians continue to clamor that more research needs to be done?  The evidence has been available for decades.