From: jeff 

Adam Flinton wrote:
> Jeff Shultz wrote:
>
>> The Lancet study has already been discredited - fairly easily, too.
>> http://www.slate.com/id/2108887/
>>
>> The authors of a peer-reviewed study, conducted by a survey team from
>> Johns Hopkins University, claim that about 100,000 Iraqi civilians have
>> died as a result of the war. Yet a close look at the actual study,
>> published online today by the British medical journal the Lancet, reveals
>> that this number is so loose as to be meaningless.
>>
>
> It is a statistical result. It could be 8K & it could be 192K equalyy
> easily. 100K is the middle of the curve.
>
However, people on the scene have noted that there would be a heck of a lot
more funerals going on if 100k were anywhere close to reality.

They aren't buying it.

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