Today’s  ‘Viewpoint’   would   have  focused  on  the no-nonsense  demographer  Mercedes  Concepcion.   At  the  Philippine Population  Conference,  she and   her  colleagues,  blistered    Maguindanao’s  “statistically impossible” 5.4  percent  bolt in population.  Most “newcomers” were  18 years old --  and new voters?

Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao's  population sprinted by 3.7  percent.  None of  19  Asian  countries  bloated  like ARRM.   Is  this “voodoo  demography’?,  we wanted to ask.