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Showing posts with label Response to PDI on the Tagum City issue. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Response to PDI on the Tagum City issue. Show all posts

Wednesday, June 15, 2011

Another lousy pro-RH article from the Inquirer, and a "colorful" response

The following is a response to this article.

TAGUM CITY’S LOW POVERTY: THANKS TO POPULATION CONTROL?
(Published June 12, 2011 on the "Colorful Rag" blog.

The Inquirer has done it again, with the article ‘Tagum: A poster city for RH bill,’ in which the spin is that local government-provided vasectomies and ligations have kept poverty incidence in Tagum City at ‘only’ 19%.

Just as with the Salve article last month (which was not just unscholarly, but anti-scholarly), we are tossed data without any regard for the interpretation of such data, resulting in bad conclusions that do not reflect reality.

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