Lancet-friendly media critiqued

Applied Hermeneutics’ token right-wing commentator, Piers Bolt, looks at the early state of play in the statistical wars...

In another pungent critique of the latest Lancet study of mortality in post-invasion Iraq, Tim Blair observes:

Lancet came up with [654,965 excess Iraqi deaths] via a survey that identified precisely 547 deaths (as reported by the New York Times). Interestingly, that information doesn’t appear here, or here, or here ...

The links are to articles in the Sydney Morning Herald, The Age in Melbourne, and The Guardian in the UK.

Blasted left-wing media!!

And to add to this grievous factual parsimony, interestingly the 547 figure also is not mentioned in News Corps’ The Australian here and here.

Blasted right-wing media!!!

Ooh, er ... hang on, that needs a little refinement. Um ... Blasted insidious left-leaning unconscious bias in an otherwise pre-eminent and balanced publication!! Yes, that’s it.

As for the mention in the liberal pansy socialist New York Times, well that just had to be an aberration. I reckon.

 
Previously by Piers Bolt
A leftie society is a girlie society
Nigel Kennedy’s existential crisis over Iraq
Lefties of the world, go f--k yourselves