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To: sylvester80 who wrote (180146)1/17/2006 8:59:02 PM
From: jlallen  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 281500
 
The Lancet "study" was discredited long ago.....



To: sylvester80 who wrote (180146)1/17/2006 10:53:20 PM
From: Hawkmoon  Respond to of 281500
 
Another ridiculous study.. And someone actually received government funding for this??

Try this link and see the fallacies contained in that Lancet report.

icantthink.com

chronicle.com

The paper that they published carried some caveats. For instance, the researchers admitted that many of the dead might have been combatants. They also acknowledged that the true number of deaths could fall anywhere within a range of 8,000 to 194,000, a function of the researchers' having extrapolated their survey to a country of 25 million.

Hawk