LANCET STUDY OBSESSIVE

With 28 posts on the new Lancet Iraq study it's safe to say Tim Lambert's obsessed -- he recently claimed to have 100 posts on the two studies together. But there's more to his posting than mere obsession: multiple posting dilutes the few negative comments from those foolhardy enough to enter the Deltoid echo-chamber, thus sparing the delicate sensibilities of his mostly lefty readers. Any comments that are too impertinent could well end up like this one from dave surls:

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Any scientists and science journals not wholeheartedly supporting the Lancet death toll figures can expect the Lambert treatment:

I guess that the next time a new physics study comes out Science will ask epidemiologists what they think of it. You see, John Bohannon, the reporter for Science, decided that opinions from a couple of physicists and an economist were more important than getting comments from experts in epidemiology.

The irony of a computer scientist criticising physicists for criticising epidemiologists escapes him. He is good with numbers though.