Chris Busby and the Fallujah sex ratio - Part 1 (dishonesty)
The city of Fallujah in Iraq suffered through intense fighting
during 2004, and US troops bombarded the city heavily. The US
military has admitted to the use of white phosphorous, which is
quite toxic though not necessarily cancerogenic. Whether
depleted uranium (DU) weapons were used or not is still an open
question, there is a number of statements in both directions
from many different sources.  During the last few years there
have been news reports about an alarming number of children born
with deformities, and other serious health effects among the
Fallujah population. In July 2010 a study by Chris Busby and
coworkers was published in the International Journal on
Environmental Research and Public health (here). The title of
the article is the rather alarming Cancer, Infant Mortality and
Birth Sex-Ratio in Fallujah, Iraq 2005–2009, and it reports on
the results of a survey done in Fallujah that reveals drastic
increases in various forms of cance