[Jeff Higgins]

It seems to me that statisticians that have reviewed the methodology employed in this study have pretty much discounted it accross the board. It has not passed any sort of peer review. I'm no statistician, so I will go with what these peers have to say. Funny how a "medical doctor" feels he can "set the record straight" on statistical analysis of a population like this, and then go on to claim the numbers have been attacked on ideological, not scientific, grounds. He sounds very much like the ideolog here.

As an admitted "layman" in this arena, it also makes sense to me when these peers point out the alarming rate of death needed to support these numbers. A thousand per day? Yet we only hear of, on the average, a few per day? Not to trivialize their suffering and death, but it seems several dozen deaths on any given day make for very big news. Can anyone show verification of any day in the last year where there were at least a thousand deaths reported? I can't remember one, much less several, much less daily. Maybe I'm just not paying attention.