The Lancet study

The Lancet raced to get the study on the Web in advance of its print publication and five days before the election.

Coalition forces in Iraq are responsible for 100,000 civilian deaths since the war began, according to a survey.

Well, not quite. It could be 8,000 or 194,000, the statistical swath cut by the small number of interviews conducted in 33 "clusters." The hottest spot was at Fallujah, where two-thirds of the violent deaths were reported and where fighting has been intense.

The Lancet. Wasn't that a much-respected medical publication ?

I don't think there is such a thing as a "much-respected medical publication" anymore. They've become notorious for spewing left-wing propaganda that doesn't have anything to do with medicine or health.

There was a time when the editorial board of the Lancet produced a professional journal that was respected throughout the Western World for promoting the art and science of medicine for the betterment of the public health as to issues of epidemiology, the efficacy of medical treatment modalities, advancements in medical technology, new pharmacotherapy, issues in medical ethics, etc., but now elements of the current board have allowed the publication to become corrupted by a bogus political propaganda article, by authors who readily admit their bias, wherein a crude estimate based on absurdly questionable methodology suggests a wildly inflated number of non-combatant deaths, in numbers exponentially beyond reality, The journal tacitly admitted its agenda, and that the "findings" were an October Surprise, rushed to be pre-released online in hopes of swaying the 2004 Presidential election in the USofA. Shameful.

Really, the Lancet needs to stick with articles germane to medicine and avoid geo-politics, Such articles may be fodder for the fools of the left, but such corruption tarnishes and discredits the publication.

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