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Famine falsehoods and publication ethics: rejoinder to Daoud and the Journal of International Development

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  • Bowbrick, Peter

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My paper, ‘Falsehoods and Myths in Famine Research – The Bengal Famine and Daoud’ (2022a), refuted Daoud’s paper, ‘Synthesizing the Malthusian and Senian approaches on scarcity: a realist account’ (2018) which presented an empirical model of the Bengal famine of 1943 using his theory. I showed at length that most of his key factual statements were falsehoods, and most of these were contradicted by evidence in his sources. His analysis was wrong. In this rejoinder I show that his Response in the Journal of International Development has not attempted to challenge my criticisms. Instead, he wrote on a subject not relevant to them, diverting attention from them. He has also produced new falsehoods. There are multiple breaches of Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) guidelines by the author and by the Journal. It is surprising that the Journal, knowing this, should have published this paper.

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  • Bowbrick, Peter, 2024. "Famine falsehoods and publication ethics: rejoinder to Daoud and the Journal of International Development," MPRA Paper 120082, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    • Handle: RePEc:pra:mprapa:120082
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    Keywords

    Famine; Famine falsehoods; Bengal; Daoud; Publication ethics; Journal of International Development;
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    • Q13 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Agriculture - - - Agricultural Markets and Marketing; Cooperatives; Agribusiness
    • Q18 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Agriculture - - - Agricultural Policy; Food Policy; Animal Welfare Policy

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