Re: Medicine is useless

On Wed, 12 Nov 2003 19:46:12 GMT, "George Conklin"
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>"Herman Rubin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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>> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>> Drol Yag <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> >Better let more people die, especially old ones, saves money and there
>> >will be no overpopulation !
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>> The effect on overpopulation will be quite small.
>>
>> Most of the world's overpopulation comes from places
>> where medical care is poor, and to the extent
>> medicine contributes to it, it does so by reducing
>> maternal and childhood, especially infant, deaths.
>
>  Herman, the only way the birth rate comes down is when infant mortality
>rate drops radically and people decide they don't need replacement children.
>You get a lower birth rate by reducing infant mortality.
>
Isn't that sort of fuzzy thinking, georgie.. Are you saying that if
infant mortality decreases that the birth rate also decreases?  not
quite possible, sweetie, but thanks so much for the thought. . 

pixie