2006 Lancet Study Co-Author Les Roberts on Iraqi War Deaths

Via (with thanks) Green Left Infoasis

By Suzi Weissman, Beneath the Surface, August 20, 2007

We begin with Les Roberts - who co-authored the Lancet study published in 2006 that scientifically estimated Iraqi deaths at 650,000 – and ask him about the methodology used, why it was dismissed by both media and the government and whether it can be extrapolated and updated for now.
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Les Roberts, an epidemiologist at Columbia University's Mailman School of Health, became prominent in the news just before the 2004 U.S. presidential election, for his study estimating that 100,000 Iraqi civilians had been killed in the Iraq war, at a time when official U.S. government estimates were much lower. In October 2006, an expanded follow-up study was released that gave a point estimate of 651,000 deaths having occurred, within a 95 percent confidence interval from 300,000 to 900,000.

Go:listen to it all.

There's also an lengthy interview, about half-way in, with education reformer, Jonathan Kozol, which is also well worth your time.