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IHME and the two words of good journalism

The investigative journalist I.F. Stone once told an assembly of aspiring writers, “I am going to tell you a number of things, but if you really want to be a good journalist you only have to remember two words: governments lie.”

Exaggerate is a more diplomatic way to put it, and that’s how the headlines read regarding a new IHME report that came out in Lancet on Thursday. Here is the local edition, from the Seattle Times: Continue reading

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