Read the blog link i left and tell me where there are the weak spots.

Les Roberts is a poltical operator running for Congress on an anti-war ticket. Lancet is likely to be a fraud.

The study is as dead as a door-nail. Debunked. Kaput. Ka-splat.

Yes certainly highly skilled statisticians like Michelle Malkin (lol) and other right-wing pundits have ‘debunked’ the Lancet numbers. I think that you’re right to rely on their expertise, and ignore those pesky epidemiologists - you know, the ones that publish in peer reviewed journals.

And if JC has a tennis match against a professional tennis player, I’d bet on the pro.

Though he would do better than CL, who wouldn’t actually swing at the ball and just declare himself the winner.

You may be interested in this blog set up by a hedge fund manager who’s made the Lancet survey (and unmasking some of the possible sleazy things they’ve done) his past time.

http://lancetiraq.blogspot.com/2008/04/sleazy-switcheroo.html

Lambert maintained a faith-based belief in it till the end.

Why? Because he hates Bush.

Sounds like the Lancet/press modus operandi. Tim Lambert must know how the youngster feels, having embarrassed himself by supporting those numbers - which are now thoroughly debunked.

As much as I hesitate at feeding the troll, his ‘argument’ about the lancet study of excess Iraqi deaths being ‘debunked’ is a lie - but I’m sure the troll already knew that.

Similarly in the world stage, the great tragedy of Princess Diana’s death was that journalists the world over lost the great deadline standby of a story on whatever “Di” was doing at the time.

Every year, universities all round Australia churn out journalists. Very few of them actually practice their craft - most of them end up in PR. The system ends up teaching ethics and scepticism to people who only want to subvert them.

From memory, Peter Pockley cited the figures for science journalism around five years ago. 140 people employed to spin science news; a total of four dedicated science journalists in the whole country.

I’ve been on an industry advisory board for a master’s program in journalism, among other topics. I couldn’t get an agenda item about teaching real reporting - the time was taken up discussing units on public relations and crisis management. And they were happily setting up satellite programs in a variety of Asian countries including Singapore and Hong Kong. At the time, it seemed to me that this was simply arrogant, given that we knew very little about the cultures.

Now that I’ve been told about the working conditions of real journalists at a local level in some parts of the region, teaching the tricks of news management to their aspiring technocrats seems nothing short of vile.