Medical Journal Resisted Publishing Pro-Israeli Rebuttal Letters to Gaza PieceThe Lancet finally caved and did the right thing. Well—almost, but not quite. They have now published some letters of rebuttal to the Big Lie anti-Israel piece they published, but they have also published letters of support for the article by Manduca et al. Just yesterday, the editorial staff of The Lancet published an editorial which, in essence, justifies its publication.
I now have confirmation that The
Lancet resisted
publishing rebuttal letters. Only after a tedious and protracted
back-and-forth did they publish a letter online, written by two Americans, Jeremy M. Levin and Ron Cohen, which
critiqued the pseudo-scientific piece which attacked Israel and amounted to a
series of Blood Libels against the Jewish state.
The Lancet also published a
much shortened version of another Israeli physician's article here. This
physician, Dr. Tamir Wolf, has launched a petition for the dismissal of the
Editor, Richard Horton, at The Lancet. Dr. Wolf notes that The
Lancet should never have published propaganda as science. She notes that:
"Elsevier has stated that the
responsibility for the decision to accept the open letter by Manduca et al
rests with the Editor-in- Chief, Mr. Richard Horton. We fully agree. Richard
Horton, the Editor-in-Chief of The Lancet, has a long and public history of
anti-Israeli views and activism on behalf of various Palestinian causes (see http://honestreporting.com/
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014
Medical Journal Resisted Publishing Pro-Israeli Rebuttal Letters to Gaza Piece
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