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Crooked Timber analyses the criticism of the Lancet's statistical analysis in its article on Iraqi civilian deaths. Shortly put, the conclusion seems to be that the vast majority of the criticisms made are bollocks.

(ETA: see also Brad. As someone who knows sodall about stats I have to go with the people I trust: these two. Tim Lambert also has a long sequence of posts on it all, the most recent is here andis firmly on the same side: the comments threads on his posts make fascinating reading. Thanks to Martin for the last one.)

Boris on the merits of the "Special Relationship".

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You make like this conversation (http://www.stalinism.com/shot-by-both-sides/full_post.asp?pid=603) Daniel Davies has with one of the survey's critics.