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To: LindyBill who wrote (183722)	10/23/2006 10:48:59 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Respond to of 793939

The Lancet 'study' declined to do any obvious cross checks. For example, they noted that 80% of the deaths they found in their interviews had a death certificate. Great, so if you apply that 80% number to all of Iraq's death certificates, what sort of total number do you get? Less than a quarter of what they reported. Do they mention or explain this discrepancy? No. They also failed to ask demographic questions, which is routinely done in such surveys as a cross-check for the representativeness of the sample.