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Burnham et al - the plot thickens

The Times runs a story on the latest developments querying Burnham et al.
I’m one of the people that supported the study, not as a flawless piece of work, but as an important contribution to the study of mortality in post-invastion Iraq. The methodology - “proven” in epidemiological studies - was a useful one to adopt […]

Drowning by numbers

I have no reason to doubt that the writers at The Economist, and Jane Galt, are truly educated people, if only because, as George Bernard Shaw noted, the mark of intellect is a passion for statistics.
The Economist’s new blog demonstrates this passion in the ongoing debate of the Lancet Study. The posts continue with the […]