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Let's review this oft-trotted out column's answers, shall we?
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Very nice job. I filled in some stats that were also misrepresented in the article below....not that it matters much considering you completey refuted it, but just FYI on the numbers...
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Fourth: "We try to save more nearly hopeless babies and report the marginal cases." Okay, this is a good point and no doubt affects that rate...but not by six years and probably not even one year. There simply aren't that many specifically 22-26 week old preemies under a pound that die after being alive at birth. See #5 for a better idea of where this goes.
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List of countries by infant mortality rate
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Fifth: "Homicides". To support this, he gives a statistic of 20,000 murders
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It hasn't been that high in more than 10 years. Since 2000, averages more like 15,000.