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WHAT DO OUR SCIENTIFIC JOURNALS DISCLOSE….OR NOT?

Recently, the Journal of the American Medical Association published an ARTICLE informing us that, contrary to the results of earlier research, unborn babies (all right, all right…..they said “fetuses”) before the 7th month of gestation don’t feel any pain.

WHO do you suppose was among the authors of this article…...?

Well, one was the director of an abortion clinic, and another was a lawyer for NARAL Pro-Choice America (I’m not linking - you can find them yourself, if you wish to.)

Naturally, JAMA is saying that there is no conflict of interest involved here—and this is the reason that they did not disclose these authors’ affiliations. You can read a bit about the controversey at a blog by ALBERT MOHLER, from which my favorite line is:

Dr. Marcia Angell, a senior lecturer in social medicine at Harvard Medical School, is also a former editor of the New England Journal. “Suppose it were the other way,” she said. “Suppose there were an article that said that [fetuses] do feel pain and it was written by people who were involved in the right-to-life movement. Would I want to know that? I think I would.”

(Hat Tip - brother Victor)

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