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Current Events => Political Ammunition => Topic started by: SSG Snuggle Bunny on February 08, 2009, 12:36:09 PM
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In a highly unusual rebuke, the American Association for Public Opinion Research today said the author of a widely debated survey on "excess deaths" in Iraq had violated its code of professional ethics by refusing to disclose details of his work. The author's institution later disclosed to ABC News that it, too, is investigating the study.
AAPOR, in a statement, said that in an eight-month investigation, Gilbert Burnham, a faculty member at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, "repeatedly refused to make public essential facts about his research on civilian deaths in Iraq."
Hours later, the school itself disclosed its own investigation of the Iraq casualties report "to determine if any violation of the school's rules or guidelines for the conduct of research occurred." It said the review "is nearing completion."
Both AAPOR and the school said they had focused on Burnham's study, published in the October 2006 issue of the British medical journal the Lancet, reporting an estimated 654,965 "excess deaths" in Iraq as a result of the U.S.-led invasion in 2003. An earlier, 2004 report, in which Burnham also participated, estimated approximately 98,000 excess deaths to that point.
In its original news release on the 2006 study, the Lancet said, "The mortality survey used well-established and scientifically proven methods for measuring mortality and disease in populations." Today, Tony Kirby, the Lancet's press officer, said in an e-mail to ABC News: "The Lancet is making no comment."
Burnham did not reply to e-mail and telephone messages.
AAPOR's standards committee chair, Mary E. Losch, said the association, acting on a member's complaint, had formally requested from Burnham "basic information about his survey, including, for example, the wording of questions he used, instructions and explanations that were provided to respondents, and a summary of the outcomes for all households selected as potential participants in the survey."
Losch said Burnham gave some partial answers but "explicitly refused to provide complete information about the basic elements of his research."
http://www.abcnews.go.com/PollingUnit/story?id=6799754&page=1
2 more pages at the link
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And another Libtard myth goes down in flames.
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And another Libtard myth goes down in flames.
Wanna bet?
If Gore Bull Warming can survive the dogpile of evidence over the past couple of years that it's little more than NeoCommie bullshit and Gaia worship, than so can this doozie in the pantheon of Libtard mythology.
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625,000 dead Iraqis? That would be under Saddam's evil regime. More like 3 million under the Baathists.
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the author of a widely debated survey on "excess deaths" in Iraq had violated its code of professional ethics by refusing to disclose details of his work
Surprise, surprise, surprise.
The latest response from DU: *crickets chirping*
Edit: HOLY CRAP! I WAS RIGHT! I posted that even before checking DU. Here's what I just found:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x8166767
Posted Feb 4th and ZERO RESPONSES.
Edit #2: And another one!
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=259x23758
Feb 5th and no responses.
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The reason the methodology was not reported is because, at the time, they would just call up a "representitive sample", and ask if anyone had been killed who was an inocent. The answer was almosat uniformly YES, Uncle Ali, etc etc, as they were PAID a few grand is someone was killed, ZIPPO if no one was! So, naturally the study is a little :tongue: out of focus. :thatsright:
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Surprise, surprise, surprise.
The latest response from DU: *crickets chirping*
Edit: HOLY CRAP! I WAS RIGHT! I posted that even before checking DU. Here's what I just found:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x8166767
Posted Feb 4th and ZERO RESPONSES.
Edit #2: And another one!
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=259x23758
Feb 5th and no responses.
Normal people would be relieved to know their government is not as awful as they were first led to believe.