[adaml_623]

Are you disagreeing with all the studies that have observed that decreases in child mortality lead to a decrease in the birth rate.

So stopping polio not only saves those potential victims but actually encourages less children to be born.

This is something I thought was commonly accepted but maybe I'm wrong.

[javajosh]

I don't think I said anything close to that, actually. It may be that the BMGF is doing exactly the right thing to improve overall quality of life; but I would like them to be explicit that quality of life is more important than quantity. Saving a baby just so that it can starve to death later in life is not a good outcome.