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[edit] Biased graph

It is interesting that the only source directly and freely accessible on the internet is one that shows data stopping at 1998, while the last two years are said to come from Uranium in the Wind, 2004 edition. Until 1998, the incidence reached a maximum 7.76‰ congenital births. In the unaccessible information, the incidence seems to raise to about 9‰ in 1999 and to a significantly higher 17‰ in 2000.
There are two other biases on the graph that leave me unsatisfied. First, no historical serie for the congenital births in Basrah is shown before 1990. A reasonable study would show the data or at least estimate it for the Eighties. Secondly, and most importantly, we are now in 2008. Other data must be available to cover the pre-2003-war period and the successive intervention.
All in all, at least three things would make this graph credible:
1) an accessible source to the last two years covered in the graph;
2) a reasonable serie;
3) new data to support this congenital births anomaly with stronger evidence of a stable increase in the area (as depleted uranium would not lose its effect over this short period of time). Billy Pilgrim (talk) 10:28, 2 April 2008 (UTC)