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June 19, 2005
More lies, damn lies, and statistics
About a month ago the UN released a study of Iraqi deaths following the 2003 Coalition invasion, which essentially refutes the hastily published
The Lancet study whose speculations of "100,000 Iraqi deaths" immediately became beloved talking points for the antiwar movement. (In fact, their version was a distortion of those results, since they frequently attribute all the wildly inflated casualty figures to the Coalition forces, which the study itself never did.)
At the time The Lancet study was published, a few people noted that this wasn't the first time the venerable British medical journal had engaged in politicized science, but now a group of British scientists is making a big stink:
BRITAIN'S premier medical journal is endangering public health by publishing unfounded scare stories, 30 of the country's leading scientists say today. Poor editorial judgment at The Lancet has fuelled panic over issues such as the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine, hormone replacement therapy and genetically modified (GM) crops, the eminent medical researchers charge in a letter that the journal has refused to publish. The signatories, thirty fellows of the Royal Society, two of whom are Nobel laureates, accuse it of favouring "desperate headline-seeking" over sound science, to the detriment of public health.Interestingly, the article doesn't mention the Iraqi casualty study. the Lancet's reputation was already going down the tubes before that one was published.
Judith | 06/19/05 at 01:40 PM | Categories: - Our NGO Masters
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