How the Lancet Cooked the Numbers (Dirty work at the Lancet/Johns Hopkins crossroads)

StrategyPage ^ | October 22, 2006 | Harold C. Hutchison

[RightWhale]

The radio doctor what's-'is-name is getting way out there on the Liberal limb. He says Lancet is highly respected and that Pres Bush is stopping stem cell research. He might be good on medicine, but he stinks on politics.

[3niner]

A terrorist is a civilian, by definition. He's not in a recognised military organization, does not wear a uniform, or carry arms openly. Therefore he is civilian

Actually, per the original Geneva Conventions, he is an illegal enemy combatant, who can be regarded as a spy, saboteur, or whatever, and summarily shot. He is not regarded as a civilian, but as an ememy who is fighting illegally.

Due to poor history education, and corrupt judges, politicians, lawyers, and journalists, the American people have become very confused about this.

[ConservativeMind]

But this is overcounting by 1400%, not just 8%.

[dirtboy]

If you overcount 8 percent within the population, every bogus death claim is extrapolated by a factor of about x2500 - the difference between the sample and the population of Iraq.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

YOU'VE SUMMED IT UP NICELY.

[ConservativeMind]

I understand what you are stating, but the accumulated number of those with whom no death certificate was found was 8 percent. So all the fingerpointing the Iraqis did to potentially non-existent people only amounted to 8 percent of the total.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Lancet has passed off politicized opinion as science before. I'm trying to locate the article that was covered their research on the global warming hoax as "unintelligible."

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Allow me to correct myself regarding a comment I made regarding the Lancet. The Lancet article was about genetically engineered food, not global warming.
Lancet did a study and claimed to find potential harm in gene spliced foods. The New England Journal of Medicine described the report as "unintelligible" and it was discredited by the British Royal (scientific) Society.

[Post Toasties]

Is it true that Senate Manurity Leader and all around lying Lefty Harry Reid took the Lancet lies and parroted them after doubling the figure to a million or more?