[agere_contra]

655,000 Iraqi civilians are dead

This statistic was made up by the Lancet using freakish statistical methods.

[wastedyears]

If we fought the war correctly, that’s how many terrorists would be dead right now.

[The Blitherer]

"This year, only 28 percent of all Americans will prepare their own tax returns, according to a voice in my head that invents accurate-sounding statistics."
-Dave Barry

[wideawake]

This statistic was made up by the Lancet using freakish statistical methods.

The methods were perfectly scientific.

I'm having a study of my own published in the Lancet next week, based on the exact same statistical techniques.

What I've learned is that during the 1970s, between 0 and 1,000,000 American children died mixing Pop Rocks with Coca Cola.

Apparently their stomachs exploded. The death toll actually included popular D-list celebrity "Mikey" from the Life cereal commercials.

It's all in the article.