[lit-ideas] Re: Muhammed and the Giant Peach
- From: "JUDITH EVANS" <judithevans1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2006 05:47:40 -0000
OK Lawrence, I'll explain at length.
You wrote, not to me,
> > The 100,000 dead Iraqi civilians was the original guess of someone who
> > anticipated that number, someone whose name escapes me. It has been
> > repeated over and over. It isn't true. And it causes me to wonder what
> you
> > are reading.
and I replied that the reading may have been _The Lancet_.
The piece, I said (i.e. the source for 100,000 deaths) was published there:
> http://www.thelancet.com/
>
> There may also have been,
I said
a
> "guess"/"anticipation"
(referring to your
> > The 100,000 dead Iraqi civilians was the original guess of someone who
> > anticipated that number,
)
>but
I wrote
> the people who did this study are researchers.
(who did research on this and published it in the Lancet; since when it has
indeed been repeated a number of times)
May I suggest, Lawrence, that if you fail to "get" a post you refer to the
posts that preceded it? (In this instance, the posts you yourself appended
to your reply to me.)
Judy Evans, Cardiff
----- Original Message -----
From: "Lawrence Helm" <lawrencehelm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, February 06, 2006 4:06 AM
Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Muhammed and the Giant Peach
> Is that to me? If so I don't get it.
>
> Lawrence
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