Soros Funded Lancet Study Claiming 650,000 Iraqi War Deaths

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Remember that highly controversial study published in the journal Lancet in 2006 claiming that 650,000 Iraqi citizens have died since the start of the war in March 2003?

Well, according to an article published in England's Sunday Times, antiwar activist and MoveOn.org founder George Soros was partially responsible for the funding.

I'm sure this will be front-page, headline news for all of America's press outlets in the coming days, aren't you?

While you ponder, here are the facts according to the Times (emphasis added):

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.

Darned straight!

Of course, I'm sure this will be the position taken by pressrooms across the country as this matter is given great focus in the next 24 hours.

On the other hand, maybe I shouldn't hold my breath, huh?

—Noel Sheppard is the Associate Editor of NewsBusters.


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Telepathy?

Great minds think alike, eh Noel?  :-)

When you put the clowns in charge, don't be surprised when a circus breaks out.

Soros suffers from the

Soros suffers from the delusion, typical of the extremely wealthy, that he is qualified to pontificate on literally anything and everything.

He is simply another in a long line of self-righteous egomaniacs who is unable to comprehend the fact that people less wealthy and successful than himself could hold opinions and conclusions that differ from his, so he begins to look for and finance sinister other forces to explain his utter failure to deceive the world to follow his unrequested advice.

Liberal: a power worshipper without power. George Orwell

Promise...

The next time one of these 'Global Warming' alarmists whines about 'oil money' tainting studies that counter the Goracle, this nugget on Soros would be an appropriate response.

Devil-Boy

Devil in a suit, this bastard is. Should revoke his citizenship and send him packing. Socialist scumbag.

Arrest Soros for Crimes Against Humanity & Sedition

There thousands of people dead in this world because of George Soros. He made that run on the British pound in the 80's and that so stressed that economy it weakened Great Britain which emboldened attacks by the IRA and caused stress in numerous households where geezers and babies died.

The garbage he has pulled in the United States in continuously funding sedition is an international crime.

Turn over any rock and there is Soros, stealing Romanian gold...........there is Soros part of the western Asian oil pipeline making tons of money off of the Iraq unrest.

This scum is an international criminal and it is time that shill for the New World Order Patrick Fitzgerald indict this smarmy thugh Soros and when convicted execute him.

 

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Soros-Media Matters-Clinton

wing of the democrat party are all pardners after the same thing. A socialist government in the United States. The USAG should return Soros to France where he's a wanted man for crimes against the people of France.

Sir Lance-a-Not!

Inexcusable politicization of a great medical journal.

Shameless.  The editors should be fired along with anyone that promoted this tripe.

Not only do physicians need to be wary of prejudicial pharmaceutical manufacturer influence on studies, now they have to be concerned about festering carbuncles like Soros infecting medical thought and practice.

Killing them with kindness isn't working.  Time to get scrappy with the Donkeys.

It's about the Money

Any time a story about G. Soros appears I always try and see if there is a way that good ole Mr Soros will profit from this. In his own business dealings he is said to be quite ruthless. I think that his ultimate motivation is about power and money, nothing more than that. I think he would use any political theory if it would advance his own power. Right now he is tied at the waist to the Loony Left. In the future I would not be surprised if he had a conversion to either conservative or libetarian values. This would only happen if George Soros would personally profit or gain power from such a move. Everyone should be wary of anything with Mr. Soros's fingerprints on it.

Soros/Bloomberg

These two billionaires want to, and believe they should, control America..  Why don't they hook up and buy the presidency or maybe just buy America.  I'll sell them my share for a cool $1B on condition they pay my moving expenses too. What egotists or is that meglamaniacs?

Their world is backwards.

How could a man who's name is a palindrome be a propagandist? Soros lied, more people than estimated died.

 Fox News has reported

 Fox News has reported this story (twice) this morning,  I've linked this to my site and the blogs are just starting to pick this up........Drudge is still sleeping and thinks a pathetic CNN poll should be a headline.......

Rovin

 

Drudge

I don't believe Drudge has led with this story, but it was on his site as of last evening, and at 10 am CST, it's still there.

When you put the clowns in charge, don't be surprised when a circus breaks out.

I also read that a member of Saddam's regime

was a key person in conducting the study.

There's always a motive......

 

"In 2004, Roberts conceded that he opposed the Iraq invasion from the outset, and — in a much more troubling admission — said that he had e-mailed the first study to The Lancet on September 30, 2004, "under the condition that it come out before the election." Burnham admitted that he set the same condition for Lancet II. "We wanted to get the survey out before the election, if at all possible," he said."  

http://news.national...

Rovin

Excellent link,

Excellent link, Rovin!

  • All researchers outspoken critics of the Iraq War.
  • One author ran for political office as a Democrat during the release of one of the papers.
  • Half the money for the research from rabid anti-Republican billionaire George Soros and the other half from "anonymous" donors.
  • Articles submitted to The Lancet with the stipulation that both must be published just prior to US elections.
  • The Lancet chosen by the authors because they will expedite review and printing unlike American counterparts.
  • Editor of The Lancet a vocal opponent of the Iraq War.
  • Data unavailable for transparent review and error checking.
  • Data reported appears massaged with numerous errors in methodology, procedure and conclusions.

Sounds to me like the template for Anthropogenic Global Warming myth promulgation.

Killing them with kindness isn't working.  Time to get scrappy with the Donkeys.

Yes - great link Rovin and excellent summary stratman!

Yes - great link Rovin and excellent summary stratman!

george soros

Just think what an incredible force for mankind this person could be if he chose to pursue good rather than evil. What an effect he would have globally by acheiving great things with his vast wealth. But alas he worships evil and his master has a very nasty place prepared for him when his mortal days come to a close.

Is it me or does Soros look

Is it me or does Soros look eerily similar to the Emperor from the Star Wars saga...

"Controlling carbon is a bureaucrat's dream. If you control carbon, you control life," Richard Lindzen - March 2007.

Oops.

Now that we know the truth, this could quickly discredit the Lancet study because of the known history of George Soros' political and economic skullduggery.

Here's why the study's fraudulent

Referring to the benchmark number as "650,000" is much too generous to the hard left. The published article(according to the internet PDF copy) presented an estimate of precisely 654,965 - - an estimate to six significant digits! Those folks are amateurs. No professional health practitioner would present such an astoundingly over-precise number. Such a egregious "estimate" deseves the scrutiny placed on Dan Rather's now infamous "document." Is the article a fraud? 

Check the three amateurish numbers yourself:  low, high, and middle "estimates" each presented to SIX significant places! What kind of established  practitioner would stand behind such unprofessional shoddiness?

Larry

i'd roughly estimate that you are 99.99798% correct

GoHunter08

Well Noel, 151,000 is a lot of dead..

Well Noel. 151,000 is a lot of dead.. and it is hard to stomach, however, perspective is always in order:

There was the facts of the 90's as well -that CBS 60 Minutes May 12, 1966 disclosure from the Clinton administration. 

Leslie Stahl: We have heard that a half a million children have died. I mean that's more children than died when-wh-in- in Hiroshima, And- and. you know. is the price worth it?

Ambassador ALBRIGHT: I think this is a very hard choice, but the price--we think the price is worth it.

In Rwanda in 1994, 800,000 died in 90 days. Did Soros run out and fund a study to show that the numbers were even larger?

Clinton sent int Brown & Root on a LOGCAP contract, then said "Never Again," but the conflict moved next door to the DR Congo, in 1998, and millions died by the end of the "era of peace and prosperity." Did Soros run out and pay for a study to show that the numbers were even larger? No, in fact the press and the "Save Darfur" activists ignored it, perhaps in fear that knowledge of yet another one might cast a shadow on Clinton's "Never Again" promise. 

 

How many is too much?

 Gee I don't know. http://www.iraqbodycount.org/ says only 80,000. Other sources 150,000. And Soros, over 500,000. Should I feel good, bad or horrified that we killed any? These people didn't do a thing to us and yet we have the audacity to parse numbers of dead when we did all the killing. "Well, yer honor, I think I should only get sixty years instead of life cause my attorney sez yer estimate's a little high."

 

 

 

"Anything worth doing, is worth overdoing" – Todd Rundgren

From liberal bull-shit to

From liberal bull-shit to steak, everything overdone is crap.

1.)  US troops attempt to

1.)  US troops attempt to minimize casualties amongst non-combatants during operations.  They are in fact, highly successful at this.

2.)  Our enemies attempt to MAXIMIZE casualties amongst non-combatants during their operations.  Theya re in fact, highly sucessful at this.

3.)  The Baathist regime killed and tortured huge numbers of their own population including the destruction of whole villages and their populations.  This has now been effectively stopped as an instrument of state run policy in Iraq since the US occupation.

If you cannot see the difference in what is happening and its positive outcome, then as part of your liberal self loathing, you do not WISH to.