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In reply to the discussion: Lancet medical journal under attack for 'extremist hate propaganda' over its coverage of the Israeli [View all]shira
(30,109 posts)90. Are you capable of acknowledging reality? Let's see...
The authors of the letter had to lie just to get it published:
We declare no competing interests.
A simple google search shows Manduca, Ang, Gilbert, etc... have been LONG time pro-Palestinian activists and therefore have HUGE conflicts of interest in writing the letter.
[font color = "red"]The failure of the Menduca et al authors to disclose their extraordinary conflicts of interest
are the most serious, unprofessional, and unethical errors.
The transparent effort to conceal this vicious and substantially mendacious partisan political diatribe as an innocent humanitarian appeal has no place in any serious publication, let alone a professional medical journal, and would disgrace even the lowest of the gutter press.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/health/news/11112930/Lancet-hijacked-in-anti-Israel-campaign.html
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The transparent effort to conceal this vicious and substantially mendacious partisan political diatribe as an innocent humanitarian appeal has no place in any serious publication, let alone a professional medical journal, and would disgrace even the lowest of the gutter press.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/health/news/11112930/Lancet-hijacked-in-anti-Israel-campaign.html
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Busted.
This was a deliberate lie and a serious breach of ethics.
In the same issue of The Lancet, a partner letter written by five authors on behalf of 1,234 Canadian physicians appeared, stating,
The counter-letter went on to say, the authors participation in highly political non-governmental organizations dependent on fundraising constitutes both an ideological and financial conflict of interest requiring disclosure.
We too are doctors and scientists who are deeply saddened by the loss of life and human suffering occurring in Gaza and Israel. We are concerned with an apparent oversight in the process leading to the publication of this open letter in The Lancet. Some of its leading authors have important conflicts of interest that are not consistent with their declaration of no competing interests.
The counter-letter went on to say, the authors participation in highly political non-governmental organizations dependent on fundraising constitutes both an ideological and financial conflict of interest requiring disclosure.
http://www.thetower.org/article/a-serious-medical-journal-just-went-totally-clinical/
They lied.
That's reality. Are you capable of acknowledging that?
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Lancet medical journal under attack for 'extremist hate propaganda' over its coverage of the Israeli [View all]
shira
Apr 2015
OP
If you call out the Israeli's for their treatment of Palistinians it's "extremist hate propaganda"?
Scuba
Apr 2015
#1
Your link goes to another of your own posts. I chased a couple links but none led to ...
Scuba
Apr 2015
#12
So again, no links to anything Lancet published that was a lie, just a lot of complaints.
Scuba
Apr 2015
#19
So you still haven't linked to any lies but instead posted "justifications" for war crimes.
Scuba
Apr 2015
#68
You've still shown no lie about what Israel is doing/has done to the Palistinians. Your "big lie"
Scuba
Apr 2015
#80
There is a reason for that. The same reason that at Cern scientists from all over the world meet
still_one
Apr 2015
#48
When global politics are causing a health disaster, I expect a medical journal to say something, yes
Scootaloo
Apr 2015
#49
It's reality based. Your side still believes in fantasy like a legal RoR for millions...
shira
Apr 2015
#17
except no body was going to prison here were they unconfirmed means just that
azurnoir
Apr 2015
#121
what you call lies have been debunked the rest is for the most part unsourced claims from ToI's blog
azurnoir
Apr 2015
#100
You seem to think the phrase "reality-based" is a trump card for your fantastical nonsense
Scootaloo
Apr 2015
#88
Asks someone who thinks Mohammed al-Dura is alive after being killed by his father
Scootaloo
Apr 2015
#94
Pathetic that you couldn't acknowledge the very blatant conflict-of-interest lie.
shira
Apr 2015
#98
It is the rebuttal letter you posted that says "We declare no competing interests."
azurnoir
Apr 2015
#101
You're still doing it. You refer to a very long thread rather than admit you're wrong...
shira
Apr 2015
#108
Again, show me exactly where I wrote that al-Dura is alive, & yet his father killed him.
shira
Apr 2015
#110
so you admit that the Lancet published a paper that contradicted the Open Letter to Gaza
azurnoir
Apr 2015
#67