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Veterans Suicide Rates Questioned

Lawmakers Ask If VA Accurately Reports Suicides or Covers Them Up

Also testifying today was Stephen Rathbun, an associate professor of biostatistics at the University of Georgia, who analyzed the data used in the CBS report.

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Rathbun told the committee he was confident of the results of his analysis, though he also said that CBS asked him to destroy the data once his analysis was completed, and that the work was not peer reviewed. CBS did not pay him for the work, he said.

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