Oommen C. Kurian Profile picture
senior fellow, health initiative, @orfonline. student of health policy. patient. optimist. marathon, not sprint. #HealthForAll #SDGs #UHC.

Aug 17, 2020, 6 tweets

The official response from The Hindu on #KuchBhiResearch is based on a strawman argument. It asserts that the flawed method was called "fudging of data". NO.
The "experts" systematically used wrong data to overestimate multiplication factor and published wrong numbers.@orfonline

"One can differ with the writers’ methodology & their estimate, which is based on a raw factor of multiplication and ...... but that does not diminish their plea for a robust health data system."
Talk about how charlatans hijack a genuine demand from researchers for data release.

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