Jousting with the Lancet: Pajamas Media Interviews Professor Gilbert Burnham
One glaring problem with the study that can be easily corrected is the absence of sufficient detail reported. The authors ought to publish tables of online supplementary data (many scientific papers nowadays do this) to allow for a thorough examination. For example, there should be a table listing each cluster, its location (governorate, administrative unit, main street), and number of violent deaths. A second table would list each violent death, the associated cluster, gender, age, whether a death certificate was presented, date of death, cause of death.
I bet a quarter that the authors would find many excuses to avoid doing this.
I don’t understand why the public, and more specifically the scientific community, is not clamoring for this.
