April 01, 2007
UK experts quietly upheld ‘Lancet’ findings on Iraq deaths
UK government experts quietly backed the methods used by scientists who concluded last October that more than 600,000 Iraqis had been killed in violence since the 2003 invasion. The government had publicly rejected the findings, published in The Lancet. But documents obtained by BBC showed advisers had concluded that the controversial study relied on sound methods and called the research “robust.” Yet shortly after the findings were published, the government said the figure was not anywhere near accurate.
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Posted by Stubbornson at April 1, 2007 07:34 PM