Lancet Study on Iraqi Death Toll Appears To Be a Fraud
Allahpundit says: ” Not for the first time, either, but the previous challenge had to do with methodology. The new questions raise the possibility of fraud.”
Professor Spagat says the Lancet paper contains misrepresentations of mortality figures suggested by other organisations, an inaccurate graph, the use of the word “casualties” to mean deaths rather than deaths plus injuries, and the perplexing finding that child deaths have fallen. Using the “three-to-one rule” – the idea that for every death, there are three injuries – there should should be close to two million Iraqis seeking hospital treatment, which does not tally with hospital reports:
Professor Gilbert Burnham, Dr Les Roberts and Dr Shannon Doocy at the Centre for International Emergency, Disaster and Refugee Studies, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Maryland, decided to work through Iraqi doctors, who speak the language and know the territory:
Dr [Richard] Garfield also queries the high availability of death certificates. Why, he asks, did the team not simply approach whoever was issuing them to estimate mortality, instead of sending interviewers into a war zone?:
Another critic is Dr Madelyn Hsaio-Rei Hicks, of the Institute of Psychiatry in London, who specialises in surveying communities in conflict. In her letter to the Lancet, she pointed out that it was unfeasible for the Iraqi interviewing team to have covered 40 households in a day, as claimed. She wrote: “Assuming continuous interviewing for ten hours despite 55C heat, this allows 15 minutes per interview, including walking between households, obtaining informed consent and death certificates.”:
Professor Burnham says the doctors worked in pairs and that interviews “took about 20 minutes”. The journal Nature, however, alleged last week that one of the Iraqi interviewers contradicts this. Dr Hicks says: : “I have started to suspect that they [the American researchers] don’t actually know what the interviewing team did. The fact that they can’t rattle off basic information suggests they either don’t know or they don’t care.”
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March 5, 2007 - 05:02 AM on March 5th, 2007
So with the smaller “more realistic” value of 50,000 civilian victims, the whole story really sounds like peanuts…
March 5, 2007 - 05:56 AM on March 5th, 2007
Mattias,
Have you publically condemned Wahabist killings of civilians on English speaking websites yet, or are you continuing to be a cowardly hypocrite?
March 5, 2007 - 07:27 AM on March 5th, 2007
2- Have you done that?
Give me the link to a site and I’ll do it..
And… will you then stop bothering me?
March 5, 2007 - 07:57 AM on March 5th, 2007
Now Matthias. Asking someone to stop engaging in the behavior you exhibit-is a rather circular argument.
And besides. It’s too much fun to ‘bother’ people who are so easily ‘bothered’.
March 5, 2007 - 07:58 AM on March 5th, 2007
China Increases Military Spending
When China was granted Most Favored Nation status, the thinking was that once the communist stronghold opened up to the free market, democracy would soon follow. It’s been ten years since China became our friends in commerce and they’ve done
March 5, 2007 - 08:07 AM on March 5th, 2007
3, Mattias, I have been giving you such sites. You won’t write Hamas. You won’t write the Kent State Professor who promotes Jihad and is brainwashing his students. So, you ask for another site after ignoring several. I have to question you sincerity.
March 5, 2007 - 08:17 AM on March 5th, 2007
3, Wahabist link for Mattias to try
Do you need your diaper changed, too?
March 5, 2007 - 08:20 AM on March 5th, 2007
Facing the Issues II
Last Monday, I posted a quasi stream of consciousness outline of issues facing our society–Western society in general and U.S. society specifically–and “threatened” a continuance of the post as a series of posts on individual issues.
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March 5, 2007 - 08:24 AM on March 5th, 2007
Why the need to lie and add 600,000 to the figure?
March 5, 2007 - 08:33 AM on March 5th, 2007
Buyer Beware
Stolen art has been found in the collection of a famous movie director.
A Norman Rockwell work stolen in suburban St. Louis more than three decades ago was found in Steven Spielberg’s art collection, the FBI announced Friday.
March 5, 2007 - 08:43 AM on March 5th, 2007
Perhaps lying is just so ingrained into the behavior of the Left they just can’t help themselves. Kind of like the Klintons. They lied about silly, inconsequential things that really didn’t matter, that nobody really cared about. But they lied anyway. Maybe it was to keep their lying skills honed? Or as Leftists, they just can’t help but lie, even when there is no need to?
They say that absolute power corrupts absolutely. Here’s another one of my truisms, one I have been saying for about as long as I have been saying that Liberalism is a form of mental illness:
The Left lies, absolutely.
March 5, 2007 - 08:59 AM on March 5th, 2007
Can you realy at times expect any studies commited by liberals to be truthful its just like CNN/TIMES or AP/UPIs fake polls showing so called support for more gun control their all fruadelent:roll:
March 5, 2007 - 08:59 AM on March 5th, 2007
The Victory Caucus and CPAC
In our CPAC roundup, check out all the Victory Caucus swag, and read about first-hand interviews with Sam Brownback and Mitt Romney. Plus: video of NZ’s Blogger of the Year award presentation!
March 5, 2007 - 09:01 AM on March 5th, 2007
4- Cao,
if you read some of the threads in which I posted my comments, you will see that I referred to the topic itself. If you look in the same threads for posts by PCD, you will see that at least half of her responses/comments attack or insult my person directly (NOT really the topic) with the usual nonsense and also with the statement “Why don’t you complain somewhere else..”
Maybe it was my fault to respond to PCD again (despite my intention to ignore her), but then half of the threads will consist of unproductive and redundant impolite descriptions of my person/behaviour. I think this would be counterproductive to the serious claim of this site…
6- This site says something on its “About Us”-page about Black Untouchables of India… If you want me to post a statement there (actually there’s no guestbook/blog neither), you could also ask me to post something on a page on Brainsurgery in Iceland in the 19th century. Don’t you have something more obvious to offer? Some “We like Osama”-fansite, where I can post my pacifist opinion?
7- Peejz,
the article only indicates the possibility a lie but does not prove it. But I share your view- to me 50,000 slaugthered innocent people are not a less horrible crime than the murder of 650,000!
March 5, 2007 - 09:22 AM on March 5th, 2007
Guard the Borders Blogburst 3/5/07
Illegal aliens are killing more Americans than the Iraq war . . .Open Trackback Monday.
March 5, 2007 - 10:42 AM on March 5th, 2007
Morning Linkage
So, Obama schedules a speech at a baptist church in Selma and Hillary, not to be outdone, has her minions find a pulpit from which she can suitably pander. Never one to be too concerned with historical accuracy, Hil zealously…
March 5, 2007 - 12:36 PM on March 5th, 2007
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March 5, 2007 - 12:46 PM on March 5th, 2007
Global Warming Scam, Sham, Wham-Bam
It seems the “debate is over” lie that the mainstream media and Communist agit-prop Gore-o-philiacs have been pushing is due to have the brakes put on it! A French scientist has switched sides on the Global Warming scam–and I don’t want to hear a…
March 5, 2007 - 02:56 PM on March 5th, 2007
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March 5, 2007 - 04:24 PM on March 5th, 2007
10. I agree with you Matthias. It seems as PCD is a juvenile just wanting to stir the pot. Go to the Bill Maher link below and you will see our correspondence.
This individual is ill educated, and highly immature. I assume that the reason PCD offers only personal attacks is because she does not have the ability to grasp the issue at hand.
Some of her comments are quite puzzling actually. A few were quite humorous where she attempts to attack me, while completely describing her own responses. I think she is a very confused individual.
While we may not agree with one another, it is important to remain civil.
March 5, 2007 - 07:06 PM on March 5th, 2007
Quote(s) Of The Day
“I’m not a member of any organized political party, I’m a Democrat”.
March 5, 2007 - 07:17 PM on March 5th, 2007
Oopss, ‘Quote(s) Of The Day should read: 123beta
That’s what I get for using haloscan…
March 5, 2007 - 09:03 PM on March 5th, 2007
Hillary for 2008
Hillary’s support among blacks has been slipping these past few months as Barack Obama, perhaps the least qualified Presidential candidate in American History, not counting the peanut farmer idiot Jimmy the-jew-hater Carter. So it was no surprise tha…
March 5, 2007 - 09:05 PM on March 5th, 2007
Truth and Hope Report: US News Reports and Decides
Tonight we talked about how the media controls what candidates you hear about, why Ann Coulter is popular with some conservatives, why the media ignored Bill Maher’s outrageous comments, and the Damascus Road conversions of many politicians.
March 5, 2007 - 09:52 PM on March 5th, 2007
“Why the need to lie and add 600,000 to the figure?”
It isn’t a need per se. It is a reflection of the lack of imtegrity of thbose who use it. Anyone with the ability to critically think easily saw the falacies behind the figure. Only those who wish to lie to themselves saw otherwise, to justify various sordid positions.
March 6, 2007 - 01:04 AM on March 6th, 2007
Bloggers to CPAC: Dump Ann - LSU to Bloggers: Why I won’t sign
Whenever I see a post on Memeorandum, and I see equal numbers of liberal and conservative bloggers referenced, I get nervous. Seeing such unity should be a good thing, but while I trust the motives of many conservatives to be at least margin…
March 6, 2007 - 01:10 AM on March 6th, 2007
Obama vs. Hillary: Issues, Please?
Okay people, enough is enough. Some time ago, the New York Times promised that the early start of the Presidential campaign would force candidates to focus on issues. I was happy about that. I figured that if we knew what…
October 15, 2007 - 09:21 AM on October 15th, 2007
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January 9, 2008 - 10:39 PM on January 9th, 2008
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