Posted on 01/13/2008 8:05:55 AM PST by Son House
Soros, 77, provided almost half the nearly $100,000 cost of the research, which appeared in The Lancet, the medical journal. Its claim was 10 times higher than consensus estimates of the number of war dead.
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He could be involved with sinking the stock market as well.
Someone got THAT close.
The study found exactly what this evil man wanted it to find. It is a typical fixed study.... a specialty of “research groups” and Universities.
do I really have to say it???
Tell you what you want to hear, take your money, sounds familiar.
Lancet did not break any rules by failing to disclose Soros’s sponsorship.
Reminds me of Clinton’s “there’s no evidence”.
It wasn't a count, it was an extrapolation. And did you actually read the report? The first report (2004) guessed at a range of 8,000 - 194,000 killed with a 95% probability that the correct number fell with that range. That is a WORTHLESS range. The second report in 2006 was equally piss poor with a broad range, i.e. extrapolated guess.
The actual count today is about 80K killed and that is mostly by the insurgency. In the year 2006 the coalition killed approximately 526 civilians and in 2005 the coalition killed approximately 350 civilians.
So yes, the Lancet report is complete political junk.
BE INFORMED: IRAQ BODY COUNT
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He is about old enough to take a dirt nap.
I hate Liars.
I REALLY Hate Liars that, by their actions, Negatively affect otherwise GOOD real results!
That f%$@&n bastard Soros needs to be deported out of this country. Or put on trial for Treason.
In the case of soros, about 60 years too late.
The actual count today is about 80K killed and that is mostly by the insurgency. In the year 2006 the coalition killed approximately 526 civilians and in 2005 the coalition killed approximately 350 civilians.
Great respect for the civilian life came from our Military, Soro’s suppling money to make them look bad is just another fraudulent Attempt to get Democrats elected.
Soros lied, people died.
The NEJM researched nearly 10,000 homes in Iraq, compared with under 1500 for the Lancet.
I do not necessarily agree with either, but this shows that no one really knows the actual count, but it sure appears the Lancet report was highly exagerrated. Keep in mind, the NEJM is no fan of the war and no fan of the administration, yet they came up with a number 75% less then the Lancet.
And, of course, the vast majority of the deaths in both reports were attributed to terrorists (called insurgents in the reports).
Um, it is laughable to suggest that peer review guarantees validity. Especially in the two Lancet published studies when the publicized comments of the one reviewer included statements to the effect that the lack of details in the report could be obscuring significant over-estimation of deaths.
The latest study was shockingly weak. Once again, they did exactly zero primary investigation (i.e., actually looking for, examining, and determining cause of death of individuals). All the study teams did was survey individuals about deaths in their households. There was no independent confirmation of any sort. The interviewers were eight Iraqis. There were exactly zero independent observers.
The team claimed to have seen death certificates representing over 90% of the deaths they personally tracked. If they really had surveyed representative households, that would imply (to support the 650,000 dead number) that over 550,000 death certificates had been issued. Yet the Ministry of Health (and Baghdad morgue) has issued only about 50,000 certificates.
Further, the investigative team have destroyed at least some of the records of how they conducted their survey (it's not clear how much), preventing any evaluation of their methods by independent researchers. They also have refused to release all of their raw data for independent review.
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