Remember that big scandal before the last US election, where Lancet, a major UK medical journal, published an article that claimed that 650thousand Iraqis died since the US intervened there?
Well, the article is unraveling...and the expose is in the normally liberal UK Times that notes the population sample was biased, and that it was physically impossible to do the survey in the amount of time claimed by the authors.
The link above is to my essay at Bloggernews. Summary: GIGO. The paper was Garbage In Garbage Out...They were so eager to publish before the election that the editor didn't properly review the paper.
One hopes the editor resigns in shame.
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