Psyche, Science, and Society

New article on Lancet study

February 12th, 2007

The Johns Hopkins Magazine has an interesting article on the Lancet Iraq mortality study: The Number:

Burnham, who is professor of epidemiology and co-director of Johns Hopkins’ Center for Refugee and Disaster Response (CRDR), tried to keep attention focused on what he thought the public needed to understand. “I have one central message,” he says. “That central message is that local populations, people caught up in conflict, do badly. This is not a study that says, Ain’t it awful. This is a study that says, We need to do something about this.”

A message lost in a number.

Thanks to Tim Lambert for this.

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