Abstract
AbstractDecision makers on famine and food policy may be influenced by myths, some of which reappear after being refuted. The subject of famine is highly emotive and politically charged which means that many authors cherry‐pick or invent evidence, suppress evidence or use bad economics. Daoud's (2018) paper ‘Synthesizing the Malthusian and Senian approaches on scarcity: A realist account’ contains many falsehoods supporting myths, both misrepresentations of what people have written on the 1943 Bengal famine (suggestio falsi) and suppression of what they did say (suppressio veri). The statistics are unacceptable. The claims about the Malthusian approach are untenable.
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