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Current Events => Breaking News => Topic started by: bijou on January 13, 2008, 04:45:32 AM
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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.
The Lancet study was commissioned by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and led by Les Roberts, an associate professor and epidemiologist at Columbia University. He reportedly opposed the war from the outset.
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link (http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article3177653.ece)
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Until we get honest reporting of finding by people not on the take or with an agenda to push...the true success and/or failure of what's going on in IRaq will never be known.
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I am not shocked. I am so sick of news with an agenda. :banghead:
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The Lancet did not break any rules by failing to disclose Soros’s sponsorship.
True. No rules were broken. In fact, the Liberal Indoctrination Rules were followed to the letter.
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The Lancet did not break any rules by failing to disclose Soros’s sponsorship.
True. No rules were broken. In fact, the Liberal Indoctrination Rules were followed to the letter.
But it leaves critics the perfect opening to impugn credibility both because of the source of funds AND the fact Lancet knew bloody well that Soros has an agenda so they willfully decided to HIDE his involvement and now have their mewling excuse.
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I want to know when they are going to release their data. They have yet to do that.
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I want to know when they are going to release their data. They have yet to do that.
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The Lancet did not break any rules by failing to disclose Soros’s sponsorship.
True. No rules were broken. In fact, the Liberal Indoctrination Rules were followed to the letter.
But it leaves critics the perfect opening to impugn credibility both because of the source of funds AND the fact Lancet knew bloody well that Soros has an agenda so they willfully decided to HIDE his involvement and now have their mewling excuse.
The critics weren't suppose to find out. Liberals don't have a plan in their Plan Book that does not assume they are still in charge of all information. Liberals' unwillingness to accept the changes in the Information World tells me those changes are the hardest blow to take.
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The Lancet did not break any rules by failing to disclose Soros’s sponsorship.
True. No rules were broken. In fact, the Liberal Indoctrination Rules were followed to the letter.
But it leaves critics the perfect opening to impugn credibility both because of the source of funds AND the fact Lancet knew bloody well that Soros has an agenda so they willfully decided to HIDE his involvement and now have their mewling excuse.
The critics weren't suppose to find out. Liberals don't have a plan in their Plan Book that does not assume they are still in charge of all information. Liberals' unwillingness to accept the changes in the Information World tells me those changes are the hardest blow to take.
I do find myself constantly scratching my head wondering why the libs thought they could get away with their latest half-assed-scheme-of-the-week. They seem to be operating like its still 1968 with Walter Cronkite reporting live from Saigon. Getting burned repeatedly never seems to make an impression upon them.