Thought for the Day

[bcholmes]

What does neutrality mean? Do people who publish about malaria deaths need to be neutral about malaria?

— Les Roberts, co-author of The Lancet paper, "Mortality before and after the 2003 invasion of Iraq: cluster sample survey"

Comments

[hellsop.livejournal.com]

Perhaps "neutral about malaria" is the dispassion to not presuppose that malaria is God's curse on brown people for living in abominable places. I haven't read the paper, though.