Sweetness

Remember the Johns Hopkins Medical School's Lancet publication that greatly exaggerated the death toll in Iraq. Well, today the Iraqi government once again confirmed that Lancet had it completely wrong. An official count was released that put the death toll at 85,694.

"A report by the Human Rights Ministry said 85,694 people were killed from the beginning of 2004 to Oct. 31, 2008 and 147,195 were wounded. The figures included Iraqi civilians, military and police but did not cover U.S. military deaths, insurgents, or foreigners, including contractors. And it did not include the first months of the war after the 2003 U.S.-led invasion."

I've written about the Lancet fiasco here, here, here, here, here and here.