Re: Medicine is useless

"Herman Rubin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> George Conklin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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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 !
>
> >> 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.
>
>
  Herman, you know nothing about India.  It was the third child who adds to
their population growth.  With TFRs under 3 (about 2.7), the population
there shows all the signs of the demographic transition taking place.   Only
recently did China drop its TFRs under India, and the data in both places is
still incomplete.  The US census provides projections for both countries at:

http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/idbpyr.html

If you wan to see high birth rates, India is not the place to find them.
You need to stop dealing with stereotypes.