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January 10, 2008
Lying Lancet Follow-Up
Posted by Dave Blount at January 10, 2008 8:31 AM
More background info has come to light on Editor Richard Horton, the sophomoric leftist who sacrificed the integrity of the Lancet, one of the most prestigious medical journals in the world, to advance his cherished cause of throwing our 2006 election to Democrats, with the broader aim of destroying the nascent democracy in Iraq.
The whole sordid story of the patently phony study he pushed through, wildly exaggerating war casualties, is documented by National Journal. Watch his cadaverous face twist with hatred as he raves about the child-killing "axis of Anglo-American imperialism" at a UK Stop The War Coalition rally that also featured Jihad George Galloway:
Corrupting science for the sake of any politics is a crime, but Horton's politicizing is in itself highly criminal in its effects. As Pam Meister observes:
[I]deology trumped up as science may well have put the lives of American troops and civilians working to rebuild Iraq in greater jeopardy. Just as the fake flushed Koran story sparked riots in the Muslim world, this flawed research was simply more gold the Islamofascists and their sympathizers could mine in their efforts to topple the Great Satan. In their rush to implicate Bush as a "war criminal," they forget — or don't care — that the casualty count could rise as a result of their follies. "We support the troops" is an oft-heard, but very misleading, phrase — about as misleading as this study.
Not only do vermin like Horton not support the troops, they are getting them killed by fighting tooth and nail on the side of al Qaeda and Iran in the Islamic propaganda war against democracy and the West.
Hat tip: LGF, on a tip from Ian from the EUSSR.
