Tuesday, March 3, 2009
One must wonder what's going on Britain that the BMJ would spend so much time, not only on Israel issues, but then attacking its critics. Well, one doesn't need to spend that much time wondering... Honest Reporting: BMJ's Bad Medicine
Following the British Medical Journal's attack on HonestReporting, many people, including Melanie Phillips ask: "what have the Arab/Israel impasse and Israel's military strategy towards the Palestinians got to do with the practice of medicine?"
Indeed, the BMJ has gone way beyond its own mission statement...
There's some interesting stuff in the rest of the report.
Richard Landes comments on such bizarre priorities, here: The Casualty Footprint of Conflicts: Stealth Conflicts gives us a view of the Astronomical Differences and Breath of the Beast, here: Graphic Representations of Pathological Disorders in the Media
The BMJ falsely accuses HonestReporting of attempting to stifle debate and freedom of speech.
from the "attack" link
The Most Politically Correct Magazine in the World
There is practically no liberal nostrum to which that venerable periodical, with a worldwide circulation of nearly half a million, does not subscribe: and its pages are quite innocent of debate. When the BMJ speaks, it is ex cathedra.