As real scientists MIT should be ashamed.
SJ wrote:
> On 1/22/07, P. J. Alling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>>> then why did you bother?
>>>
>> Because I'm tired of the crap.
>>
>
> you take the words out of my keyboard....
>
>
>> I did a bit of real research, Human Rights Watch for the estimate of
>> the Kurdish death toll. www.GlobalSecurity.org has a nice set of numbers
>> for the Iran Iraq war estimates, they agree in general with several
>> other sources. www.kuwait-embassy.or.jp for the Kuwait numbers. There
>> were a number of places that had minimum and maximum numbers for total
>> dead from the Ba'athist regimes over 30 years, I took two that were
>> neither the highest nor lowest figures.
>>
>
> nobody's defending saddam. it's just that in a lot of places the US
> isn't perceived as being very different. statistics like the one
> provided by JHU often support that perception.
>
>
>> It's very difficult to find data on genocidal regimes such as the Ba'ath
>> party under Saddam, they tend to not file reports with the UN about
>> their illegitimate activities. By the way, anyone who's done any
>> "Social Science", (and I use the word science very loosely in this
>> context), research will tell you that survey data is not to be trusted,
>> especially if there are actual bodies that can be counted. It seems
>> that the JHU never heard that, at least based on the article as I read it.
>>
>
> you can always ask them (and MIT which supported the study) to shut up
> and go home....
>
> regards, subash
>
>
>> SJ wrote:
>>
>>> i got my figures of casualties in iraq after the US invasion
>>> (6,50,000 total, 3000 american) from a peer-reviewed findings of the
>>> the School of Public Health of the Johns Hopkins University. see here:
>>>
>>> http://www.jhu.edu/~gazette/2006/16oct06/16iraq.html
>>>
>
>
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