Comment by ricardobeat

I'll watch the video in full when you read the paper. It starts with obviously flawed math: mortality rate decreases + 'lives saved' doesn't have to add up, and a flat death rate does not equal "no change" because of aging and other factors. It then jumps into mischaracterizations of the study, completely ignoring the data, "it's just a lot of numbers to make it look sophisticated" and false allegations like that excluding high income countries (which do not receive USAID) is manipulating the results. The author clearly has no idea what the scientific method is just randomly finding "holes" in the paper.

The 90M figure is probably exaggerated, but this video is completely nuts. This is exactly why the internet has failed us.