In October 2004, "a study was published in The Lancet, a prestigious British medical journal, concluding that about 100,000 civilians had been killed in Iraq [3] since it was invaded" in March 2003. "Public-health professionals have uniformly praised the paper for its correct methods and notable results," but "many American newspapers and television news programs ignored the study or buried reports about it [4] far from the top headlines." The timing of the paper's publication, days before the U.S. election, "opened the study to charges of political propaganda [5]." The study's lead author "blames the American news media for being embedded [6] not only with the military but also with the military point of view," but also faults himself for not managing the media better.