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Author Topic:   Have 600,000 Iraqis died violently since 2003?
Tal
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Message 76 of 77 (448350)
01-13-2008 2:33 AM
Reply to: Message 75 by Modulous
01-12-2008 9:39 AM


Re: Finally, the Lancet slain once and for all...
Ahhh but the plot thickens!
Anti-war Soros funded Iraq study
A STUDY that claimed 650,000 people were killed as a result of the invasion of Iraq was partly funded by the antiwar billionaire George Soros.
Soros, 77, provided almost half the 50,000 cost of the research, which appeared in The Lancet, the medical journal. Its claim was 10 times higher than consensus estimates of the number of war dead.
The study, published in 2006, was hailed by antiwar campaigners as evidence of the scale of the disaster caused by the invasion, but Downing Street and President George Bush challenged its methodology.
New research published by The New England Journal of Medicine estimates that 151,000 people - less than a quarter of The Lancet estimate - have died since the invasion in 2003.
“The authors should have disclosed the [Soros] donation and for many people that would have been a disqualifying factor in terms of publishing the research,” said Michael Spagat, economics professor at Royal Holloway, University of London.
Good old George. I'm going to guess that he is not completely unbiased in the "research" he chooses to fund.

We never seem to acknowledge that we have been wrong in the past, and so might be wrong in the future. Instead, each generation writes off earlier errors as the result of bad thinking by less able minds-and then confidently embarks on fresh errors of its own. --Michael Crichton

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Modulous
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Message 77 of 77 (448376)
01-13-2008 8:08 AM
Reply to: Message 76 by Tal
01-13-2008 2:33 AM


Re: Finally, the Lancet slain once and for all...
Ahhh but the plot thickens!
Usually when the plot thickens, it means some new and interesting information has come to light. I know that Soros funded the study, that was why I posted that "the point about funding from Soros is reasonable". The point in question was from the article posted which states
quote:
Soros's group gave $46,000, and the Samuel Rubin Foundation gave $5,000. An anonymous donor, and another donor whose identity he does not know, provided the balance, Tirman said. The Lancet II study cost about $100,000, according to Tirman, including about $45,000 for publicity and travel. That means that nearly half of the study's funding came from an outspoken billionaire who has repeatedly criticized the Iraq campaign and who spent $30 million trying to defeat Bush in 2004.

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