Ensuring Health Statistics in Conflict are Evidence-Based: a Response (andrew mack, 01 June 2010)
We were surprised and disappointed by the tone as well as the content of the editorial by Dr Les Roberts entitled “Ensuring Health Statistics in Conflict are Evidence-Based.” Dr Roberts dismisses the Human Security Report Project’s (HSRP) “Shrinking Costs of War” report as a “poorly done” exercise that received “limited credence in the press and even less in the academic community” and is “the latest and worst” of a series of research interventions by non-public health professionals on global health-related issues.
No evidence was provided for these and other claims that unwarrantably impugn the scholarly reputation of the team that produced the report. The editorial, which even insinuates that the HSRP...
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Ensuring Health Statistics in Conflict are Evidence-Based: a Response (andrew mack, 01 June 2010)
We were surprised and disappointed by the tone as well as the content of the editorial by Dr Les Roberts entitled “Ensuring Health Statistics in Conflict are Evidence-Based.” Dr Roberts dismisses the Human Security Report Project’s (HSRP) “Shrinking Costs of War” report as a “poorly done” exercise that received “limited credence in the press and even less in the academic community” and is “the latest and worst” of a series of research interventions by non-public health professionals on global health-related issues.
No evidence was provided for these and other claims that unwarrantably impugn the scholarly reputation of the team that produced the report. The editorial, which even insinuates that the HSRP... read full comment
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