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Edited on Wed Oct-11-06 08:26 PM by Botany
From back in the day i do know a little about science and #s.
1. Author's Bio
Dr. Gilbert M. Burnham is the co-director of the Center for Refugee and Disaster Response at Johns Hopkins. He has extensive experience in emergency preparedness and response, particularly in humanitarian needs assessment, program planning, and evaluation that address the needs of vulnerable populations, and the development and implementation of training programs. He also has extensive experience in the development and evaluation of community-based health program planning and implementation, health information system development, management and analysis, and health system analysis. He has worked with numerous humanitarian and health development programs for multilateral and non-governmental organizations, regional health departments, ministries of health (national and district level), and communities in sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, and Eastern Europe. A major current activity is the reconstruction of health services in Afghanistan.
2. John's Hopkins is a world class institution.
3. Lancet is a Professional Publication ... ALL PAPERS ARE PEER REVIEWED PRIOR TO PUBLICATION.
4. It was a study was funded by M.I.T. They don't fund crap. (most of the time) They have thousands of people are groups looking for them to fund different research I am sure that this was well vetted before starting.
5. Statistical analysis and proper sampling are very powerful tools. And very accurate .
Beck is just a shill who wouldn't know a chi square test from a double blind study.
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