The authors of "The Human Cost of the War in Iraq", citing a death rate (5.5/1000 per year) before the Coalition invasion and comparing it to the post-invasion death rate (13.2/1000 per year) has determined that the war is responsible for 655,000 deaths in Iraq. Given that the survey of more than 1800 households randomly selected in clusters that represent Iraq's population AND is a standard tool in epidemiology used by the US Government and many other agencies, how can one question the methodology of this peer-reviewed paper in an eminent journal?
President Bush said ""I don't consider it a credible report...The methodology is pretty well discredited."
Considering he has ZERO science background, I wonder how he came to that conclusion. Specifically, what methodology does he have issues with?
2006-10-11
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The ~Muffin~ Man
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