freecounterpoint: The Lancet at it, again

Wednesday, October 11, 2006

The Lancet at it, again

The art of making up figures.

15 comments:

Mr roT said...: Do we have a million? A million? Million? Tenure is going, going, going, Gone! To Burnam. And make that a Full-professorship for Les!; 10/11/2006 10:15 AM
Tecumseh said...: Is there an a-priori upper bound here? As the Lancet goes, they may soonn reach 10 million, without batting an eyelid.

Of course, if the Dems get their way, and we cut and run, leaving Iraqis to slaughter each other at heart's content, the Lancet will drop the casualty count back towards 0 in a NY minute.

Reminds me of Vietnam and Cambodia: while we were fighting the commies, every single casualty on the other side was reported as a tragedy by the media, and it still is -- as in the "napalm girl" story, which is dredged up by the Pepes of this world whenever they feel like beating up on the US. On the other hand, the millions of Cambodgians slaughetered by the commies when they took power in Cambodia, or the hundfreds of thousands sent to reeducation camps or forced to migrate on boats in the high seas from Vietnam are conveniently swept up under the rug or thrown in the memory hole by the apologists for any America-hater than comes down the pike. And so it goes.; 10/11/2006 10:50 AM
The Darkroom said...: Yet another measure of america's shameful involvement in iraq? might as well conveniently call it a fraud.; 10/11/2006 11:58 AM
Mr roT said...: Le Monde bites hard. This is page-one lying with figures.; 10/11/2006 12:44 PM
The Darkroom said...: Not that CNN, NYT & The Post are any different.

Curiously, Fox focuses on the "disputed" nature of the study.; 10/11/2006 1:02 PM
Mr roT said...: Sorry, Pepe. I should have been more precise. Yes, all the majors are running with the story. Actually I was heartened by the last couple paragraphs in the Monde article indicating that these "scientists'" timing was political (as are, presumably their results).
What I should have said (and did mean) is that Le Monde gave this piece a lot of prominence at the third position on their site and in big titles.
The other majors didn't do this, though it is true that CNN put it near the top.
I am unhappy that no one has linked to the story that Bush has claimed this work of scientific inquiry is wrong.
Great. Bush wouldn't know the student t-test if it bit him on the arse and he is right while real pros in a public health department are wrong about their own discipline, blinded as they are by hatred.
So much for the serene scientific mind.; 10/11/2006 2:16 PM
The Darkroom said...: real pros in a public health department are wrong about their own discipline, blinded as they are by hatred
in an age of swift boat veterans for truth, i was under the understanding that anything went prior to an election. am i confused?; 10/11/2006 4:24 PM
Tecumseh said...: Are you implying that the swift boat veterans lied about their Vietnam experience, especially regarding Jean Francois? Care to substantiate that innuendo with precise facts or figures?; 10/11/2006 4:37 PM
Tecumseh said...: The other majors didn't do this, though it is true that CNN put it near the top.

Well, what do you expect from a news organization founded by a man who says he is not sure on whose side he is in the War on Terror (meaning, he knows precisely on whose side he is, and that's not the one where his bread is buttered, you can bet your last nickel on it).; 10/11/2006 4:42 PM
My Frontier Thesis said...: Pepe, please keep talking like this:

"Yet another measure of america's shameful involvement in iraq? might as well conveniently call it a fraud."

It does more damage than good to the Democratic Party.; 10/11/2006 5:56 PM
The Darkroom said...: Are you implying that the swift boat veterans lied about their Vietnam experience, especially regarding Jean Francois? Care to substantiate that innuendo with precise facts or figures?
Did OJ kill his wife ?; 10/11/2006 6:18 PM
Tecumseh said...: Yes. So?; 10/11/2006 7:06 PM
Tecumseh said...: OK, let me put it another way. John Kerry -- the standard bearer of the Left in the 2004 elections -- accused in sworn testimony in Congress in 1971 the men serving in the US Army in Vietnam of unspeakable war crimes. Some of his fellow soldiers from that time took him to task for this defamation. Care to rebut them, and stand by Kerry's accusations?; 10/11/2006 7:14 PM
The Darkroom said...: This is ridiculous: at the rate at which they're going, there should be no more iraqis by mid-2008.; 10/11/2006 9:06 PM
Mr roT said...: You must mean that at the rate that the Lancet is claiming, there will be no more Iraqis...
Maybe we're already in the negatives now.; 10/12/2006 12:21 PM