George Soros bought Iraq research
Posted in George Soros on Jan 13th, 2008
Yet somehow, the anti-US crowd bought into it hook, line, and sinker.
The Times Online reports that Soros payed for more than 50% of a 2006 study that was printed in Lancet, a medical journal. The study claimed that more than 650,000 people were killed during the Iraq invasion, which is 10 times higher than general consensus.
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.
I fail to understand why ANYONE would take a Soros funded study seriously.
