Thanks for pointing that out. My attribution to the BMJ was incorrect.

@mung #7.

If you’d care to elaborate, what types of deaths are you referring to?

What alternative system of review of scientific publications would ID advocates put forward?

I hope this doesn’t sound “arrogant” or “provocative”, I’m genuinely interested. To me, it seems to be much like the great Churchill quote:

“Democracy is the worst system of government… apart from all the others.”

For democracy read peer review.

That said, the paper – if properly vetted for facts – might be a useful stimulant for clear thinking.

We don’t have enough of that, these days. Too many people mistake politically correct thinking or sentimentality for sound judgement.

The inclusion of these tens of millions of deaths (100MM deaths?) would likely invert the BMJ’s findings; a 90% increase rather than decrease.

Those are not the BMJ’s findings. The BMJ’s error-filled and contested improperly-reviewed paper found “War causes more deaths than previously estimated, and there is no evidence to support a recent decline in war deaths.”
It is the critics of the BMJ who are defending the integrity of prior studies which claim a 90% reduction in war deaths.

After climategate and zongate and googlegate, now medicinegate! Journal papers with errors in them are especially troubling given the way in which they are accepted as inviolate and uncontestable truth by believers. What is needed is for these tax-burden flunky “scholars” to allow some kind of ongoing criticism and correction of papers, or even for independent analysis and reproduction of published work to be encouraged. Until the day that happens it’s wiser not to trust this so called “medical science” with its consensus maintained by obviously hopeless “peer review”.
I wouldn’t trust an electrician who only catches 1/3 of the problems with my house’s wiring, so I for one will not place confidence in a doctor whose “knowledge” has been gleaned from this corrupted establishment. From now on I will rely on my local Faith Healer.

Sweet to me are the days when I can simply compose rapidly, with the split screen showing the codes below.

Software?

Indeed. Especially when it comes to the dissection of digital organisms.