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Based on media reports, I would have assumed that bombings killed more civilians in Iraq between 2003 and 2008 than any other cause. According to a study published earlier this week in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), however, that assumption would be wrong. Utilising the detailed database assembled by Iraq Body Count, a [...]
Dr Andrew Wakefield sparked a major international scare with his 1998 article purporting to find a link between autism and the triple vaccine against measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR). An in-depth investigation by The Sunday Times of London has discovered that his results were based on falsified data. The research was published in February 1998 [...]
Dr Gilbert Burnham, lead researcher of the controversial study of “excess deaths” in Iraq attributable to the US-led invasion, has been censured by a prominent group of polling researchers. The American Association for Public Opinion Research rebuked Burnham for persistently refusing to disclose crucial information about the methods used in his study, which was published [...]
Dr J. Scott Armstrong, Professor of Marketing at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, and an internationally recognised expert in forecasting methods and models, released a statement outlining eight reasons why the forecasting model used by the International Panel on Climate Change is unreliable. 1. No scientific forecasts of the changes in the Earth’s climate. [...]
On Saturday, 20 December, a sample of residents of Shiqiao, a town near Nanjing, China, received a call from the provincial Statistics Bureau and were asked questions about personal happiness and income and other fascinating stuff. The survey found that they were exceedingly happy indeed. Shiqiao residents reported a satisfaction index of over 96% (60% [...]
The Journal of Peace Research has given its 2008 Article of the Year award to Neil F. Johnson, Michael Spagat, Sean Gourley, Jukka-Pekka Onnela & Gesine Reinert for “Bias in Epidemiological Studies of Conflict Mortality”. The article challenged the methodology utilised by Gilbert Burnham et al. in their study of deaths in Iraq, published in [...]
