Quote Originally Posted by IRONxMortlock
Ah, so there's no scientific criticism because it is so horribly wrong? And here I've been trained to believe academics like nothing more than to pounce on rivals who publish poor work and gut them like fish. I'm serious here, academics are ruthless when it comes to shredding those who produce sloppy research.

Like all statisics, this study has a margin of error too as is clearly stated in the publication. STATS paraphrases this to:
The study is flawed.

finds the study estimating 650,000 excess Iraqi casualties since American forces entered the country to be methodologically sound.:Heart disease/stroke 1 (2%) 15 (6%) 11 (20%) 74 (54%) 102 (19%)
It includes all deaths, not casualties.

In a careful study published in the Lancet, a prestigious British journal for medicine, professors from Johns Hopkins University and the School of Medicine at Al Mustansirlya Univesity in Baghdad found through a random sampling of Iraqi households that over 650,000 deaths have occurred in Iraq since the invasion in 2003, that would not have occurred had there not been war : Old age NA NA NA 19 (14%) 19 (4%)
The study is hugely biased.

The error coming from the use of statistics is found in the confidence interval. In the case of the Iraqi deaths study, the confidence interval for the number of excess deaths is 392,979 to 942,636 people. What this means is that, if the survey were conducted again, we could be 95 percent confident that the excess deaths would fall in this range again. : Cancer 1 (2%) 5 (2%) 14 (26%) 11 (8%) 33 (6%)
They have artificially inflated their study so as to get a huge number. While still claiming this study is about how many "extra" deaths have occured. The study has a huge bias and the remainder of it including how the interviews were conducted and how and were the houses were randomly sampled from are in question. As for their range, the possible difference is a massive 549,657, thats more then thier most conservative guess. I do not question the science, infact I am more then 100% certain that in the past 4 years at least 650,000 Iraqi's have died. Infact that number is not at all shocking, its reaslistic, if not a bit conservative. The fact of the matter is that the study claims to be a study about how many people have died becuase of the war. Not a study about how many people have died in Iraq in the past 4 years.

They have blatently infalted their numbers and tryed to hide the fact that they did it by saying people are attacking the science. Come on, nuff said they've already admitted to doing it.
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