freecounterpoint: 2.5%

Monday, March 26, 2007

2.5%

The reply from another official is: "We do not accept the figures quoted in the Lancet survey as accurate. "

In the same e-mail the official later writes: "However, the survey methodology used here cannot be rubbished, it is a tried and tested way of measuring mortality in conflict zones."

8 comments:

Mr roT said...: Jesus, Pepe! We went through this before. Remember the size of the error bars the last time the Lancet published this bullshit? Where's your objectivity? You went to school and did a little science even, as I recall. Why aren't you critical now?; 3/26/2007 12:33 PM
Pepe le Pew said...: But the Ministry of Defence's chief scientific adviser said the survey's methods were "close to best practice" and the study design was "robust".

Another expert agreed the method was "tried and tested".; 3/26/2007 1:03 PM
Pepe le Pew said...: Where's your objectivity?
sorry, i thought i was posting to fcp.; 3/26/2007 1:19 PM
Arelcao Akleos said...: JJ, having just recently commended the D of PP for possessing a cool uber-ironic stance and deftly forgoing such bourgeois idiocies as "the prison of logic", if not the rathole of reason, nevermind the onion of objectivity, what's now your beef? Did you really think studying a bit of earth science makes one "objective" against the grain of one's nature?
The D of PP has by now a very established, concrete-shoed, modus operandi. And it has everything to do with seeking out quotes which back up preconceived conclusions, and using such as happy and unquestioned "authority" to make the onerous chore that is hard thought a burden he never has to carry.; 3/26/2007 3:20 PM
Pepe le Pew said...: aa, do switch to english.; 3/26/2007 4:07 PM
Mr roT said...: Pep! You esweetsh to anglais, if you deign to! AA, you have a point, but Pepe at one point agreed that those guys from Johns Holekins that claimed a gigadeath (in Lancet right before the election) were frauds. They had a Gaussian that went from here to Saturn with its peak kinda sorta at a billion. So they said P(Deaths<2 billion)\approx 95% and the NYT swooned. They got tenure likely, and John and Hopkins are rolling over in their Balls Itch More. Now the corpse is being exhumed and I'm calling him on his belief in resuscitation.; 3/26/2007 9:51 PM
My Frontier Thesis said...: Don't underestimate transmigration either, JJ...; 3/26/2007 9:53 PM
Mr roT said...: of souls?; 3/27/2007 1:35 AM