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re: Cluster surveys, used in this study, are routinely used to determine rates of death in natural disasters.
Tom Brosz — (archived)

Maybe the technique has always been less than accurate?

There are holes in this a mile wide. Just a few I've spotted already:

--The study claims that 90 percent of the people surveyed submitted death certificates as proof, yet their results were ten times higher than the numbers reported by the Iraqi authorities who actually write the death certificates.

--The Lancet study claims about 5,000 Iraqi civilians a month (31 percent of the total) dead from coalition action alone. This doesn't include sectarian killings, car bombs, or terrorism.

According to the doctors in Fallujah, there were 800 deaths in the seige of Fallujah, of which IraqBodyCount estimates about 600 to be civilians. If the Lancet is right, our military is doing the equivalent of eight Fallujah attacks a month, every month. Where is this happening?

--No other source...NONE...for Iraq casualty counts has ever corrected their own count to match the results of the first study. Why?

--We'll leave aside the accuracy of death counts under Saddam's regime. How many of those had death certificates attached?

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