2/5     Remember that Lancet study?  (Well, Lancet II actually.)  Turns out the
        authors refuse to release their methodology.
        http://www.abcnews.go.com/PollingUnit/story?id=6799754&page=1
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3/5     Lancet Article re 650K Iraqi deaths may be inaccurate:
        http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/iraq/article1469636.ece
        \_ Still waiting for someone else to do an actual scientific study
           that indicates otherwise. So far, all we have seen are politically
           based claims that the numbers "just can't be."
           \_ So, I can make any claim I want, and I don't have to prove it,
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12/29   R.I.H. Saddam Hussein
        \_ Hope GWB joins him soon.
        \_ YES! Death to all tyrants in the world! Now there will be peace
`               \_ E_SICSEMPERTYRANNIS
           and harmony in the middle east again, where Shiites and Sunnis
           will hold hands and celebrate. We can now bring the troops back.
	...

10/16   AMAZING COINCIDENCES 101:
        Saddam verdict to be read on November 5th
        http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15285264
        \_ You're right.  What are the odds he'd get his verdict 101 years
           to the day after the board game Monopoly was released?
        \_ on the 27th anniversary of the day Ayatollah Khomeini declared the
	...

10/11   The invasion of Iraq may have caused 650,000 Iraqi deaths.
        http://tinyurl.com/fjqs7 (online.wsj.com)
        \_ Yawn.  May have?  In the same way there was 'up to' 800 killed on
           the Bay Bridge from the Loma Prieta quake as reported by the Daily
           Cal.  These guys admit they time and public with a political
           agenda.  Where are these 650k bodies?  They don't just vanish like
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10/11   The invasion of Iraq may have caused 650,000 Iraqi deaths.
        http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB116052896787288831-lMyQjAxMDE2NjEwMDUxMjA4Wj.html
        \_ "caused" -- no.  This is Lancet II.  Once again timed to come out
           just before an election.
           \_ do you have a point?
           \_ The Lancet debunkers have been...debunked.
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7/13    So Molly Ivins makes another mistake in her retraction (but to her
        credit she did retract it):
        http://www.alternet.org/columnists/story/23493
        She claims: "The high-end estimate of Iraqi civilian deaths in this war
        is 100,000, according to a Johns Hopkins University study published in
        the British medical journal The Lancet last October, but I was sticking
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6/21    Tim Russert interviews VP Cheney on his predictions on post-war Iraq
        prior to the invasion http://csua.org/u/cg6 (Post)
        \_ It's amusing how quiet the motd conservatives are now that they've
           been shown to be wrong in so many ways.
           \_ We've learned that there's no point trying to discuss things
              rationally with crazy wing-nut lefties who don't give a shit
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6/20    Curiosity got the best of me, and I read the Lancet study, too.  It's
        quite thorough, undeceptive, and straightforward.  Responding to
        emarkp's post (http://csua.com/?entry=38170
        RE: Confidence Intervals. (1)Assuming a normal(it's not, it's
        skewed), there's a 90% certainty there were over 40k dead, 85%
        certainty over 51k dead, 75% certainty over 68k dead. (2) this CI
	...

6/20  Subthread about mortality rates yanked from above Lancet post
        \_ This is ordinarily true, but I would be curious to see some
           pre-Saddam data.  Naturally, I doubt we could find something like
           that.  -- ilyas
           \_ The study actually recorded pre-Saddam data.  Pre-Saddam death
              rates were 5.0(3.7,6.3)/1000/yr, Post-Saddam data were
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6/20    In the encyclopedia under "cognitive dissonance" it says "see emarkp
        and the below Lancet threads."
        \_ d00d, cognitive dissonance is "no doubt" there were WMDs to:  uh,
           why can't we find any?  oh yeah, because they're in syria or buried
           in the desert.
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