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Julie Rehmeyer has a decent article about the Lancet studies in Science News. Unlike Neil Munro and Megan McArdle, she doesn't have an axe to grind. She talks to experts in the field like Jana Asher instead of non-experts like...
Posted on March 29, 2008 9:14 PM • 25 Comments
Last year AP-IPSOS surveyed Americans and asked them to estimate how many Iraqi civilians had died in the war. They grossly underestimated the number, with the median estimate being just 9,890. The Atlantic has now published Megan McArdle's latest anti-Lancet...
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Posted on March 28, 2008 2:16 PM • 30 Comments
Les Roberts has a given a briefing to German parliamentarians on deaths in Iraq. Hat tip: Media lens...
Posted on March 18, 2008 12:56 PM • 44 Comments
Diane Farsetta has an excellent and comprehensive write up on the Lancet and other studies on deaths in Iraq. A few extracts: Theoretically, the public health surveys and polls that have been conducted in Iraq -- at great risk to...
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Posted on February 27, 2008 12:04 PM • 33 Comments
Mark Hoofnagle reviews a new group blog, Science-Based Medicine. I must say I've loved much of the writing at the new blog Science-Based Medicine. These guys are fighting the good fight and presenting very sophisticated aspects of evaluating the medical...
Posted on February 26, 2008 7:19 AM • 2 Comments
John Tirman has an article in Editor and Publisher. Extract: The charge, repeated in all these media, that the Iraqi research leader, Riyadh Lafta, M.D., operated "without U.S. supervision" and was therefore suspect is particularly interesting. Munro, in a note...
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Posted on February 14, 2008 10:43 PM • 45 Comments
Michael Spagat is back with another attack on the Lancet study. Most of it is stuff we've seen before, like absurd assumptions he makes for Main Street Bias, and the false claim that Soros funded the study. But there is...
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Posted on February 14, 2008 12:41 PM • 24 Comments
Neil Munro has had another go at the Lancet studies. This time he has gone on right-wing talk shows to attack Riyadh Lafta. On Glenn Beck he claimed This study -- the guys in this study have not shown the...
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Posted on February 11, 2008 12:24 PM • 45 Comments
I wouldn't have thought that it was possible to be more wrong than Neil Munro's prediction of the result of the Iraq war: The painful images of starving Iraqi children will be replaced by alluring Baghdad city lights, smiling wages-earners...
Posted on January 31, 2008 4:11 AM • 35 Comments
ORB has revised their estimate of violent deaths as a result of the Iraq war (discussed earlier here). They write: Further survey work undertaken by ORB, in association with its research partner IIACSS, confirms our earlier estimate that over 1,000,000...
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Posted on January 29, 2008 12:44 PM • 162 Comments
John Tirman documents Neil Munro's dishonesty. I think this is an excellent catch by Tirman -- Munro selling his National Journal story to Iraq war architect Michael Rubin: George Soros funded the survey. The U.S. authors played no role in...
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Posted on January 21, 2008 1:05 PM • 34 Comments
I think it is worthwhile to update James Wimberly's comparison of surveys of deaths in Iraq. In the table below death tolls have been extrapolated to give a number of deaths due to the war so far. SurveyViolent deathsExcess deaths...
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Posted on January 15, 2008 12:02 PM • 84 Comments
Johns Hopkins corrects some of the misinformation in the Neil Munro's hit piece. John Tirman has gone through the whole thing, noting all the inaccuracies and misleading statements....
Posted on January 14, 2008 12:52 PM • 22 Comments
In a story funded by a pro-war billionaire, Brendan Montague, who seems to know which side of his bread is buttered on, writes: A STUDY that claimed 650,000 people were killed as a result of the invasion of Iraq was...
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Posted on January 13, 2008 11:29 AM • 54 Comments
John Tirman comments on Neil Munro's misconduct: One quick note about the Soros bugaboo. I commissioned L2. It was commissioned in Oct 2005, with internal funds from the Center for International Studies at MIT, of which I am executive director....
Posted on January 11, 2008 10:29 PM • 127 Comments
Les Roberts replies to a shamelessly dishonest WSJ editorial: Your editorial entitled, "The Lancet's political hit" regarding our study of Iraqi deaths was a unique blend of error and innuendo. For example, I was not opposed to removing Saddam; I...
Posted on January 10, 2008 1:03 PM • 106 Comments
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