British Medical Journal “The Lancet” Publishes Open Letter by David Duke-Supporting Doctors
Photograph of racist, antisemitic David Duke via http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/david-duke-expelled-from-italy-8988849.htmlThis is disgusting. The people in charge of “The Lancet” ought to be ashamed of themselves for even considering allowing this to be published in their journal. Evelyn Schlatter reports on this shocking development.
For nearly 200 years, the British medical journal The Lancet has been internationally well respected in the medical profession. But lately, the journal has come under fire for allegedly being “hijacked” by an “anti-Israel campaign.”
In July, according to The Telegraph, the journal published a controversial “open letter to the people of Gaza” that strongly condemned Israel without mention of Hamas actions. The letter’s five primary authors claimed they had “no competing interests,” but The Telegraph notes that all five have campaigned vigorously in pro-Palestinian causes over the years, something the journal failed to make clear.
Particularly controversial was the fact that two of the letter’s authors, Dr. Paola Manduca and Dr. Swee Ang, also promoted a video by David Duke, a former Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan. That information was revealed in a cache of emails openly available in Google groups, according to The Telegraph. Ang is an orthopedic surgeon in the UK while Manduca is a professor of genetics at the University of Genoa in Italy.
