Richard Miniter debunks a highly politicized study published in the prestigious British medical journal The Lancet. He does a very good job of exposing some of the grounds on which the study, which claimed 100,000 deaths from the American invasion and occupation, can be judged a phony. But there are other anomalies. The Lancet Study report by Les Roberts of Johns Hopkins University's Bloomberg School of Public Health data was researched in Sept 2004. That makes from the start of OIF on 19 Mar 2003 to the end of the study's data collection [assuming the entire month] 31 Sept 2004, the period of the data collection was 531 days.  If the Lancet study argues there were 100,000 resultant civilian deaths during the war period; that averages 188 deaths per day... The study is over a year old now... extending the 100k deaths figure even until the date of the Times article, 6 January 2006, that equals 994 days since the start of OIF and today would average 100 civilian deaths per...(Read Full Post)