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.
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.
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”.