Australia's own version of Baghdad Bob offers the following comments on the Lancet study (slightly paraphrased):
"The Lancet, they always depend on a method what I call ... stupid, silly. All I ask is check yourself. Do not in fact repeat their lies."
The Lancet is all about lies! All they tell is lies, lies and more lies!"
Update: After dismissing the Lancet study because it was based on a "Survey of a Thousand Households", Blair declares a Conservative victory in Canada based on a survey of 1,125 Canadians. Odd.
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This American Life have a show on Lancet 1 and Lancet 2. Much of it is a repeat of their story on Lancet 1, which is well worth listening to if you haven't already. Their comments on Lancet 2 are in the last ten minutes.
I think it is worthwhile to update James Wimberly's comparison of surveys of deaths in Iraq. In the table below death tolls have been extrapolated to give a number of deaths due to the war up to Oct 08.
The results of the Iraq Living Conditions Survey 2004 have been published.