RE: Autism and MMR Vaccine Study an 'Elaborate Fraud'

I'm really suppose to be working, but this took me 5 minutes to find:

From

http://www.iraqanalysis.org/local/041101lancetpmos.html

Which argued for the Lancet article and against the British government
response and I quote:

<quote>
Had the Fallujah sample been included, the survey's estimate would have been
of an excess of about 298,000 deaths, with 200,000 concentrated in the 3% of
Iraq around Fallujah
<end quote>

OK, 200k deaths in and right around Fallujah

Well, what's the population?

At

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallujah

Fallujah was estimated at about 430k just before the war.  If you want to
play Dr. Pedantic, my offhand estimate should have said "the Fallujah metro
area.  But, with 200k deaths measured in that region, and the fighting being
concentrated in the city, either the pro-Lancet website got their numbers
all wrong, or my estimate is close.  

Now, I don't see their explanation for why they excluded Fallujah, so I
can't prove motivation.  But, 200k deaths in that small region would have
shown up in something other than a statistical estimation.  It would have
been impossible to miss that large a fraction of the population dying.

So, are you arguing that there were 200k deaths in the Fallujah area and
they were excluded from the Lancet study for other reasons?  If so, what
reasons?  I do remember posting references to the inconsistency being the
reason back when, but online references don't stay forever.

Dan M.