Hurricane Katrina Blamed For Increases In Stillbirths

Can hurricanes cause stillbirths to rise sharply or is it epidemiologists torturing data until it confesses again?  A paper in the Journal of Epidemiology&Community Health says that Hurricanes Katrina and Rita are responsible for up to half of all recorded stillbirths in the worst hit areas and the  true fetal death toll may even be higher because of the displacement of people whose homes were destroyed. Well, they use the weaseling "may have been" that has become famous in advocacy claims for meaning 'we are claiming causation but we can't prove it so we will hint at it'. read more

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