It is irresponsible and despicable for academics and scientists to use their trusted position and their credentials to spread deception for partisan purposes.
Much to my regret, I find myself forced to revisit old territory on the subject of civilian casualties in Iraq and the questionable means being used to estimate them. In 2004 a study by researchers from Johns Hopkins University was published in The Lancet. It purported to be a statistical analysis of civilian deaths in Iraq during the first year after the invasion. It was immediately latched onto by the left and they began talking about 200,000 civilian casualties and other alarming numbers despite the fact that the study was poorly conceived, shoddily executed and a classic example of bad methodology.…
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