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Courtesy of Amac comes letters just published in Lancet concerning the Iraqi Mortality Survey. Stephen Apfelroth, Department of Pathology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine writes: In their Article on mortality before and after the 2003 invasion of Iraq (Nov 20, p 1857),1 Les Roberts and colleagues use several questionable sampling techniques that should have been … Read more
Below are two letters recently published in Lancet concerning the Iraqi Mortality Survey. I am going to post on the letters but I wanted to cache them here because the Lancet link system (1) requires registration and (2) is a bit wonky under the best of conditions and I want people to have easy access … Read more
Via commenter AMac: Tim Lambert has a new post that responds to some of Shannon’s arguments and takes me to task. AMac himself posted this comment on Tim Lambert’s site, and I think summarizes well most of the important concerns about the Lancet piece. AMac is more cautious in his inferences than I would be, … Read more
A lot of people have taken me to task for calling the Lancet Iraqi Mortality Survey [PDF] an example of scientific corruption. I still stand by this claim. Many seem to equate scientific corruption with falsification of data but there are many ways to create a false impression even if the underlying data is sound. … Read more
Number Gut (Shannon Love, May 17, 2005) ILCS vs LIMS (Shannon Love, May 14, 2005) Study Supports Shannon’s Suspicions (Ginny, May 14, 2005) Cluster Sampling and LIMS: Part 1 (Shannon Love, April 12, 2005) Lancet Letters Part II (Shannon Love, Mar. 30, 2005) Lancet Letters (Shannon Love, Mar. 30, 2005) Lancet Update (Jonathan, Mar. 29, … Read more