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Effects of international sanctions on age-specific mortality: a cross-national panel data analysis (www.thelancet.com)
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A new paper published in The Lancet — one of the world's most respected health journals — finds that sanctions imposed by the West on developing countries have caused 38 million deaths since 1971.

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[-] Bgugi@lemmy.world 11 points 3 days ago

Honestly, these types of methodology sections go over my head. How do they distinguish between "deaths caused by sanctions" and "deaths caused by sanctioned regimes?"

[-] frongt@lemmy.zip 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I skimmed the paper; it doesn't look like they did.

Further, it doesn't look like they studied changes in mortality when sanctions were lifted, nor in neighboring unsanctioned regions. They jumped right from correlation to causation. This seems to be "post hoc, the paper".

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