Their number makes no sense on any level, and I don't care how lovingly the statistics were worked out. The results still have to match the real world.
On some level, they make sense.
I'll have to see how they determined them, in detail, but if they're fiction, they got past a peer-review board, which means they are a clever fiction indeed.
I have already heard that this is the first ever scientifically conducted study of civilian casualties in Iraq, based on surveys rather than military or media estimates. I'm not in such a hurry to dismiss the researchers' findings. They are either going to be found to be accurate, or they will have to be discredited by an equivalent study, not only by saying the numbers don't match the other numbers that don't match each other. The least we can do is examine their methodology.
The other question, the underlying one, is what happens if they're correct? Does it matter?
The real world in question is a war zone. What reality have they to match? It's chaos.
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We'll see.
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- Johns Hopkins/Lancet pull another number out of their asses.
- Another study for comparison
- Considering no nukes, WMDs, no al-Qaeda no link to WTC - how many is too many? (n/t)
- Link to actual study
- That's nothing. Remember the ONE MILLION IRAQI CHILDREN who supposedly died due to the sanctions?
- Does it make you feel better, Tom...
- What should be disturbing....
- Cluster surveys, used in this study, are routinely used to determine rates of death in natural disasters.
- Got any idea why Bush & Co. don't keep track of Iraqi deaths?