Dear Diane Rehm - a big lie repeated, and you just sat there

Your guest, a reporter for ABC News, repeated a "big lie".

Of course, she's a corporate, imbedded reporter. Take those with a grain of salt.

The Big Lie your guest repeated, discussed by Dr. Les Roberts in the following interview, is that the new British study of the famous John-Hopkins study on civilian Iraqi deaths found that the original study may have been too conservative in its numbers.
The big lie she mouthed was that yes, the Brit scientists (of whom nobody could question their expertise) said the numbers were determined to be "wrong".
Some propaganda is easy - lie by ommission.

Not that the numbers were conservative, but that they were wrong... implying they were perhaps excessive or done sloppily.

The study of the study said the numbers were too small.
Dr. Roberts was in Rwanda after the genocide. He said the numbers of dead innocent people in Iraq equal or exceed the numbers of dead in the Rwandan genocide.
Chew on that.

Antiwar Radio: Charles Goyette Interviews Les Roberts
Thursday, March 29th, 2007 in News, War crimes, Antiwar Radio, Iraq by Charles Goyette (link listen)

Dr. Les Roberts from Columbia University discusses the famous Johns Hopkins/Lancet studies of “excess civilian deaths” in Iraq since 2003, the UK government scientists who told Tony Blair that Lancet had, if anything, underestimated the dead at 655,000 (more than the Rwandan genocide of 1994), the deliberate efforts of the U.S. government to suppress numbers of the dead.

MP3 here. (16:49)
Les Roberts, PhD, holds has a Masters degree in public health from Tulane University and a Ph.D. in environmental engineering from Johns Hopkins. He did a post-doctorate fellowship in epidemiology at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention where he worked for 4 years. In 1994, he worked as an epidemiologist for the World Health Organization in Rwanda during their civil war. He previously served as the Director of Health Policy at the International Rescue Committee. He is a lecturer at the Johns Hopkins University Department of Geography and Environmental Engineering where he teaches each fall. He teaches a class entitled Water and Sanitation in Complex Emergencies and the 7-week quantitative component of the Program’s Investigative Methods in Complex Emergencies course.