Re:India’s cumulative Covid deaths by Sep2021 estimated to b...
by pomdapi on Monday January 10, 2022 @06:07AM
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It's a estimation made with of a model with data from an electoral polling company using phone call to a total of 140'000 individu over two years.
Let's look at the affiliations of the authors : save for an economist in India, two thirds of the team are from a Canadian think tank, the rest work for a big data company in Washington, almost none have published anything ever, and if they did, it was not medecine...
IMHO : A lot of doubt, if only due to the data source.
This smell like a lobbyist's made to order report. To me, it's strange it's been allowed by the Science editorial board.
Let's look at the affiliations of the authors : save for an economist in India, two thirds of the team are from a Canadian think tank, the rest work for a big data company in Washington, almost none have published anything ever, and if they did, it was not medecine...
IMHO : A lot of doubt, if only due to the data source.
This smell like a lobbyist's made to order report. To me, it's strange it's been allowed by the Science editorial board.