Damning Report on the Lancet's Iraq Survey   [Michael Rubin]

Last year, the British medical journal Lancet published a bombshell report suggesting that more than 600,000 Iraqi civilians had died as a result of Operation Iraqi Freedom and its aftermath.  Neil Munro has conducted an in-depth investigation into the survey and has a great piece out in the National Journal:  Neil summarizes:

George Soros funded the survey. The U.S. authors played no role in data-collection, and did not apply standard anti-fraud measures. The chief Iraqi data-collector had earlier produced medical articles to help Saddam?s anti-sanctions campaign in the 1990s, and said Allah guided the prior 2004 Lancet/Johns Hopkins death-survey. Some of the field surveyors were employed by Moqtada Sadr?s Ministry of Health. The Iraqis? numbers contain evidence of fakery, and the Lancet did not check for fakery.