Noah seems to be adding his own fake facts by wildly misrepresenting the response by Zahn.
The response to the maternity deaths stats emphasises that the key factor is preventability.
A statistical change that reveals many more preventable deaths is important and needs a response, even if (possibly especially if) those preventable deaths were previously not captured by the statistics.
How did that become:
> To me, this clearly qualifies as disinformation. Zahn is demanding that researchers bury their findings so that the doctors, activists, and politicians he likes can get more money.
