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Nature 446, 611 (5 April 2007) | doi:10.1038/446611b; Published online 4 April 2007

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Authors defend study that shows high Iraqi death toll

Les Roberts1 & Gilbert Burnham1

  1. Program on Forced Migration and Health, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, New York 10032, USA
  2. Center for Refugee and Disaster Response, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA

In our opinion, your News story about our Lancet paper "Death toll in Iraq: survey team takes on new critics" (Nature 446, 6–7; 2007) has confused the matter rather than clarified it. You outline three criticisms of our work: that there was not enough time to have conducted the survey; that the sampling method suffered from a 'main-street bias'; and that the study team fabricated the data (the last being attributed to anonymous "researchers").

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