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Originally Posted by Konovalov
If this survey is remotely accurate then indeed it is truly shocking. But all the statistical surveys carried out seem to span such a massive wide ranging variance that I really am not sure as to what the true figure is. I recall the survey that was published in the British medical journal, The Lancet which claimed 100,000 people had died as a result of the Iraq war which was double the figure claimed by the Iraq Body Count group at the time.
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In fact, the Iraq Body Count group themselves have responded to the Lancet study:
Reality checks: some responses to the latest Lancet estimates.
I find the last sentence of that press release somewhat interesting.