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Friday, September 09, 2005In an editorial, The Lancet urged Reed Elsevier to sever all links with the arms trade, claiming they were incompatible with the journal's values. 'On behalf of our readers and contributors, we respectfully ask Reed Elsevier to divest itself of all business interests that threaten human, and especially civilian, health and well-being,' the journal said. 'Values of harm reduction and science-based decision making are the core of public-health practice. 'Certain military technologies that Reed Elsevier has allowed to be showcased at DESi are contrary to these values.' Ummm. Sometimes those weapons save lives. Just ask the survivors of New Orleans. After all, the brouhaha down there about the slow response is so much about food and shelter as it is about the failure to get enough troops down there to maintain law and order. P.S. Does anyone think the editors of The Lancet would bat an eye if their publisher was supporting an expo on abortion techniques? posted by Sydney on 9/09/2005 08:41:00 AM 0 comments 0 Comments: |
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