Jousting with the Lancet: Pajamas Media Interviews Professor Gilbert Burnham
The WSJ made an even more telling point than the genral under-sampling. The researchers apparently did not record the age or gender of their respondents. this is important because it allows one to check how representative the sample was of the general population. The smaller the sampling ratio the more important it is to check its representativeness. It is extremely odd that this data is not available.
One final comment. The age pyramid clearly has significant implications on mortality rates. However, if this is the case then it seems to me you have to break your mortality rates down by age cohort to actually come up with the calculation.
In addition, like to like comparisons would include death rate comparisons with Syria, Saudi Arabia and Iran. A robust reports would have footnoted these.
