Jousting with the Lancet: Pajamas Media Interviews Professor Gilbert Burnham
With amazement I am reading all these comments mostly made by so called ‘right wing’ people. And these people who often cannot tell the difference between the average and the median instantly know that this Lancet report is flawed.
Well I am a skilled statistican from Holland and for example I have given advice at the Dutch authorities about how to measure dioxine levels in milk, or more precise: what statistical procedure to follow.
I have read the Lancet report and I can find no fault in methodology or in outcome. I wish the reported outcome of 650k extra dead would be lower but it has to be remarked that this is a lumpsum number.
By the way: It is easy to check if indeed the mortality rate has doubled or tripled: Just visit a few Iraqi cementaries and see if the rows of freshly dugged graves is indeed twice or three times the length of dugged graves/year from the Saddam era.
Why do I write this post? Well I would like to give the so called ‘right wing’ people a gift. A gift? Yes a gift. Here we go:
For the last 3.5 years every now and then I declare it to be a so called Military Bloody Day and very often US military death toll on such days is written with a double digit number. My reader can check for him or herself, the latest Military Bloody Day was located at 02 October or 09 Ramadan. We had 09 killed US slime in Iraq and 02 in Afghanistan, since 09 + 02 = 11 we had one more day of double digit fun…;)
Now please don’t get mad my dear reader, your military likes me a lot because every now and then I give them some advice for use on the battlefield. Just like I give advices to al Qaida in whatever country and until now the US military has never complained about my double digit jokes.
I only use my right of free speech and every idiot in the Western world is allowed to declare so called Military Bloody Days while reciting for civil death toll is often forbidden. So I do nothing illegal or so my dear reader, but I just like it so much: Double digit US military death toll is what I desire with all of my heart and who knows may be in some far future I can hope for triple digit fun on certain specified days…
Now this was my gift for the rednecks and the right wingers. (The lefties in the USA must not think that I favor them or so; they are Americans and therefore are stupid by definition. Just by definition.)
Sincerely yours, Reinko V.





