mcbride
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ORIGINAL: Sanity Per live birth? Aylee pointed out the problems with such statistics here. So, the question that naturally follows is how does The Lancet account for the differences in the way live births are counted in the varying countries when putting those statistics together? Actually, people can scroll down one post on that link and see exactly why Aylee's attempt to resurrect an already-discredited argument failed. Those people may also wonder what that attempt to explain away a huge gap in infant mortality has to do with something as statistically straightforward as the number of women who die in childbirth. Imagine how huge that oopsie in 181 countries would have to be to cut the number of dead American mothers in half, to match Albania, Canada and most of Europe. Sanity, the Lancet, being the most prestigious medical journal on the planet (or the second most, if you're at Harvard), doesn't do studies, it reports on them. If the Lancet found the study credible enough to report it, and you personally think it's just another conspiracy to look at a couple of hundred countries just make one country's for-profit medicine look bad, you might have to offer a slightly more convincing challenge to the glaring numbers than "maybe they put those statistics together wrong," hmm?
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