Originally posted by Holden McGroin
No straw man. I quoted a reliable, widely accepted source. You had some exception to IBC without any source to back up your argument, and I asked you for a source.
According to your site, they take exception to IBC because "IBC's methodology ignores even English-language media reports of Iraqi civilians' deaths, unless matching reports of the same casualties are published by at least "two independent agencies.""
Having two sources agree seems to be reasonable to me. Otherwise I would have accept as fact that:
Wow, from a little straw man, to this
Bat Boy discovered sleeping in swimming pool
(Las Vegas, WWN)
"He was lethargic at first," Eric Ricarrdi recalled in a Weekly World News interview, "but he started screeching from dusk to dawn. I slip food under the garage door to him once a day. He eats mostly table scraps and bugs, but he's starting to like the same food my roommate and I eat. He is especially fond of Spam and applesauce." Zoologist Ron Dillon--the original discoverer of the creature--travels to Las Vegas to recover Batboy and return him to Dillon's laboratory in Wheeling, West Virginia. "We underestimated the creature last time," Dillon says. "We are going to take extra measures to make sure he doesn't escape again."
You are weaving quite the straw man now.
Here is a quote from your site
"What we are attempting to provide is a credible compilation of civilian deaths that have been reported by recognized sources. Our maximum therefore refers to reported deaths — which can only be a sample of true deaths [if] one assumes that every civilian death has been reported.
It is likely that many if not most civilian casualties will go unreported by the media. That is the sad nature of war."
And you take this over The Lancet study? You obviously didn't read the study. What it does is take the mortality rate before the conflict and after. That takes account for deteriorating health system, no clean water, etc., which is a result of military intervention.
Basically the ibc is run by a mom & pop who have full time jobs and read the paper.
So, basically what your saying is that if the National Enquirer and The National Examiner run this story
Bat Boy discovered sleeping in swimming pool
(Las Vegas, WWN)
"He was lethargic at first," Eric Ricarrdi recalled in a Weekly World News interview, "but he started screeching from dusk to dawn. I slip food under the garage door to him once a day. He eats mostly table scraps and bugs, but he's starting to like the same food my roommate and I eat. He is especially fond of Spam and applesauce." Zoologist Ron Dillon--the original discoverer of the creature--travels to Las Vegas to recover Batboy and return him to Dillon's laboratory in Wheeling, West Virginia. "We underestimated the creature last time," Dillon says. "We are going to take extra measures to make sure he doesn't escape again."
Then it's true?