[R-G] Iraq Mortality Researcher Sanctioned

[Anthony Fenton]

See also:

  - 'Counting the Dead in Iraq' 2007 Lecture by Burnham:
http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/453

  - "Mortality after the 2003 invasion of Iraq: a cross-sectional  
cluster sample survey
http://brusselstribunal.org/pdf/lancet111006.pdf

  -  "The Human Cost of the War in Iraq: A Mortality Study, 2002-2006":
http://web.mit.edu/CIS/pdf/Human_Cost_of_War.pdf


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Iraq Researcher Sanctioned
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/23/AR2009022302932_pf.html
Associated Press
Tuesday, February 24, 2009; A04

The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health is sanctioning the  
lead author of a 2006 study that suggested massive civilian deaths in  
Iraq.

The school announced yesterday that it is barring Gilbert M. Burnham  
from serving as a principal investigator on projects involving human  
subjects, saying he violated school policies by collecting the names  
of those interviewed.

The school completed an internal review of the study, which estimated  
that nearly 655,000 Iraqis had died because of the U.S.-led invasion  
and war in Iraq. The review found that inclusion of identifiers did  
not affect the results of the study.

The school says the paper published in the Lancet medical journal  
incorrectly stated that identifying data were not collected. A  
correction will be submitted.