Jousting with the Lancet: Pajamas Media Interviews Professor Gilbert Burnham
The professor questions the manipulation of reporting data by some, but seems to believe the data he encounters otherwise, based on a percentage of death certificates. This is curious. If I came up with this data, I would question immediately the data I obtained, rather than speculate that someone else’s data has been manipulated.
I believe he should continue to collect data. At this rate, half of the population will expire in the next decade, as all of the younger men are eliminated, no children are born, and the elderly expire. Just where are those mass graves?
These data always detract from issues which are more important than numbers, such as exactly who is killing whom and why. The American policy is not stoking the flame of sectarian violence- insurgents are who want this mission to fail. And there is nothing un-American about a Shiite and a Sunni deciding that starting tomorrow they will not kill each other. In fact, it is downright typical of western culture.
