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Tusko Member (Idle past 355 days) Posts: 615 From: London, UK Joined: |
I know - I know. I somehow, I keep getting surprised. I get more and more depressed that genuine debate actually seems impossible. Maybe I just like that feeling of righteous anger - but that probably isn't healthy.
As for the thread, I realised that this thread was a better place to discuss this - the other one is a direct repeat. So basically - apart from all these people making random assertions, I don't see any compelling reason why the study isn't robust. If anyone sees anything interesting they should put it in this thread. Incidentally, I was quite tickled how this thread was left hanging - with an 'I'll get back to you'.
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Tusko Member (Idle past 355 days) Posts: 615 From: London, UK Joined: |
This is interesting. A new survey estimates over a million deaths in Iraq as a result of the war. Let the rebuttals ring out, and quash this grubby, cynical manipulation of truth for sordid left-leaning ends!
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Tusko Member (Idle past 355 days) Posts: 615 From: London, UK Joined: |
So... I've been patiently awaiting any additions to this topic, and there haven't been any. Not just from evc-ers, but from people generally. If you do a blog search, it turns up one or two random asserters, but nothing very much.
The oddest thing is this. Remember ORB from my last post? They said they were going to revise their findings in the light of rural areas to see how that would change the data, and not a sausage from them for weeks, when they suggested it would be up within days. I wonder why this is? Edited by Tusko, : for clarity mentioned ORB
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Tusko Member (Idle past 355 days) Posts: 615 From: London, UK Joined: |
Hello,
Can I ask where the information in this table is derived from please? Danke!
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Modulous Member (Idle past 239 days) Posts: 7801 From: Manchester, UK Joined: |
Thanks for asking, I think I wandered around the internet looking for figures - I'm assuming most of them came from wiki but it was a year ago now. Wiki lists a high end figure of 4million for Vietnam which is the kind of figure needed to give the death rate, so I might have made an error in choosing my figures - then again the death rate in the Lancet study is hardly conservative...
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Tal Member (Idle past 5931 days) Posts: 1140 From: Fort Bragg, NC Joined: |
Hello Tusko. I read the LA times article about the ORB assessment. What would you like to discuss? I can tell you about deaths of local nationals and trends in the northeast quarter of Baghdad, to include Sadr City, if you would like.
If those WMD that don't exist were easier to identify and handled properly, then this would not have occurred.
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Tusko Member (Idle past 355 days) Posts: 615 From: London, UK Joined: |
Thanks for that - I'm just being lazy. I was particularly interested in the Darfur figures - which are phenomenal. Not fun.
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Tusko Member (Idle past 355 days) Posts: 615 From: London, UK Joined: |
What I want to know is approximately how many people have died as a result of the 2003 invasion of Iraq. However, this is proving a very difficult number to come by; or more accurately, it is exceedingly easy to come across many fantastically different figures.
Of necessity, my interest has turned from the elusive number itself to the various studies: to the merits and deficiencies of the official Iraqi estimate, to the two Lancet investigations, and to the ORB questionnaire and Iraq Bodycount. With regards to the ORB poll, I am annoyed by the fact that they haven't provided the further information on the rural areas as they prominently state on their website will be forthcoming in early October 2007. Though it frustrates me, we are only in a position to speculate as to this delay. Thank you for the offer of information pertaining to the deaths of local nationals and the trends in the northeast quarter of Baghdad - however, I am only interested insomuch as it might grant me an understanding of the post invasion mortality across the nation as a whole. This issue has clearly become very politicised, an unreadable palimpsest of competing voices, and an actual answer to this question seems further away than ever. This leaves me gnashing my teeth with frustration.
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Tusko Member (Idle past 355 days) Posts: 615 From: London, UK Joined: |
Hey, there are lots of fun blog posts from the last couple of days with titles like:
The Death Blow For Lancet Iraq War Casualty Study; Data Bomb: The Lancet and Lancet II Iraq Dead Are Bogus; and my personal favourite: British Medical Journalism: Corrupted by Hatred of the Iraq War. They are responding to this article in something called The National Journal, which I'm not familiar with. I haven't seen anybody stepping forward to defend the Lancet studies from this (if the various anti Lancet bloggers are to believed) series of deadly body blows. I'll be interested to see what happens next. Edited by Tusko, : No reason given.
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Tal Member (Idle past 5931 days) Posts: 1140 From: Fort Bragg, NC Joined: |
New study estimates 151,000 violent Iraqi deaths since 2003 invasion
9 JANUARY 2008 | GENEVA/BAGHDAD -- A large national household survey conducted by the Iraqi government and WHO estimates that 151 000 Iraqis died from violence between March 2003 and June 2006. The findings, published today on the web site of the New England Journal of Medicine, are based on information collected during a wider survey of family health in Iraq, designed to provide a basis for the Iraqi government to develop and update health policies and plan services. The estimate is based on interviews conducted in 9345 households in nearly 1000 neighbourhoods and villages across Iraq. The researchers emphasize that despite the large size of the study, the uncertainty inherent in calculating such estimates led them to conclude that the number of Iraqis who died from violence during that period lies between 104 000 and 223 000. I hope this answers your question. I've always thought 600,000 was a bit much considering what I've seen in my AO in 2 tours. We never seem to acknowledge that we have been wrong in the past, and so might be wrong in the future. Instead, each generation writes off earlier errors as the result of bad thinking by less able minds-and then confidently embarks on fresh errors of its own. --Michael Crichton
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Tusko Member (Idle past 355 days) Posts: 615 From: London, UK Joined: |
As I understand it, the two studies were setting out to achieve different ends: WHO - violent deaths; Lancet - excess deaths. I'm not sure about this though because from what I understood of the Lancet, a high proportion of deaths seemed to be violent. I will have to have a look at this.
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Modulous Member (Idle past 239 days) Posts: 7801 From: Manchester, UK Joined: |
Thanks for this, this is a much more comprehensive criticism than I have seen and it looks to be pretty fatal, as the pundits observe.
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Tusko Member (Idle past 355 days) Posts: 615 From: London, UK Joined: |
Oh, maybe actually it isn't. I'm getting really tired of this - I just don't understand enough about statistics so I just have to take people's word for it.
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Dr Jack Member (Idle past 129 days) Posts: 3514 From: Immigrant in the land of Deutsch Joined: |
The Lancet study estimated around 50,000 additional non-violent deaths.
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Modulous Member (Idle past 239 days) Posts: 7801 From: Manchester, UK Joined: |
I think one of the comments makes a good point:
While most of Munro's points do in fact seem to be complete crap, the point about funding from Soros is reasonable (if for example, the study had found the opposite and had been funded by some right wing billionaire I suspect we'd all be quick to all that out) That said, I'm probably erring on the side of the WHO at this point.
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