Jousting with the Lancet: Pajamas Media Interviews Professor Gilbert Burnham
I could have gone on Wikipedia and edited their entry on Mortality to prove the point that anyone can write anything in Wikipedia…
Any erroneous changes you made would probably be quickly be removed.
Wikipedia certainly isn’t the final word but it is an excellent source of ‘potential facts’ which then can be verified with the aid of more solid sources.
If you look at worldwide data on mortality vs. life expectancy, you will see a clear tendency for nations with higher mortality rates to have lower life expectancies, and vice versa.If you look at worldwide data on mortality vs. life expectancy, you will see a clear tendency for nations with higher mortality rates to have lower life expectancies, and vice versa.</i?
I see no such thing. Among the 20 countries with the lowest mortality rates we find Gaza, the West Bank. Oman, Libya, Jordan, Nicaragua, Ecuador…hardly countries with high life expectancies. In fact there are only two countries that appear in both the 20 countries with the highest life expectancies and the 20 with the lowest mortality rates…Singapore and Macau.
