Our recent article in Injury Prevention comparing international terrorism mortality to road crash mortality¹ has stimulated questions around methodology and logic.²

To respond, firstly, we consider that there is a strong case for making comparisons between the burden of international terrorism and other causes of preventable mortality. Indeed, we and others have published such comparisons elsewhere in the peer reviewed literature (see studies cited in our previous papers^1,3,4). Such comparisons can inform the issues of …