A 2006 estimate of how many Iraqi deaths the US-led invasion had caused continues to be a lightning rod for controversy. This time the row is over who gets access to the survey data.
On 4 February, the (AAPOR) based in Lenexa, Kansas, accused epidemiologist Gilbert Burnham of Johns Hopkins University (JHU) in Baltimore, Maryland, of “repeatedly refusing to make public essential facts about his research on civilian deaths in Iraq”. AAPOR charges that this “violates the fundamental standards of science”.
The criticism concerns the results of a survey of Iraqi households that…
