I agree that Hopkins' Uni and the Lancet is right ("best practice"), but here is what they found...GG_Fan wrote:Above presupposes the caller was right [as you seem to have assumed]. But as seen by the recent report that the "Iraqi 655,000 deaths survey 'was robust'", I believe George. The UK government even tried to claim this figure was wrong when their own scientists/advisers were telling the UK government that the survey was "very robust". The UK government, yet again, twisted the facts, and effectively lied to the media -- a reverse of the dodgy dossier .. this time rubbishing an accurate dossier.Popinjay wrote:I'll claim I've caught him in a lie before. He quoted an old Lancet figure saying the USUK are directly responsible for most of the deaths in Iraq, then a caller corrected him that a new figure showed that they weren't. A week later he made the claim again. Course, they're indirectly responsible for them all, but that wasn't the claim made.
"The proportion of deaths attributed to coalition forces diminished in 2006 to 26 percent. Between March 2003 and July 2006, households attributed 31 percent of deaths to the coalition"
https://www.jhsph.edu/publichealthnews/p ... _2006.html
But that isn't what George said when he was supposedly quoting the study. His figure was an accurate figure, but of an earlier study. I agree completely with the rest of your post. You're preaching to the choir when you talk to me about Iraq.