Re: Medicine is useless

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
George Conklin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>"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 !

>> 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.

Only partially; India is a good example.  Women do come
in for birth control information after they have had on
the order of a half dozen children.  Infant mortality
dropped radically more than a half century ago.

The only non-totalitarian method available is economic.


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