From: "Gary Wiltshire" 

On Tue, 09 Nov 2004 10:49:00 -0800, jeff  wrote:

> 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.

Don't you know?  It's that differential standard of proof thing again.

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Gary Wiltshire

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