freddo411

This question is awful. Curing disease does not cause a famine.

No. Famines have many causes, none of them have anything to do with a healthier population.

Aren't you embarrassed as a scientist to publically associate with "activists"? Doesn't that undermine your credibility as an unbiased observer of the facts?

Perhaps the hypothetical system is composed of planets orbiting a neutron star and this system is in the line of sight but far enough away to not exhibit gravitation effects on KIC 8462.

Presumably the occulting planets wouldn't significantly show up in the stellar spectrum