http://www.gmc-uk.org/register/search/stats.asp

The Lancet is as bad as the BMJ and I’ve alerted HR to recent items. But this is not just an issue of left wing politics. They are as biased when it comes to chronic fatigue syndrome. They’ll accept any old pro-psychiatry rubbish and publish perhaps one paper in ten years indicating a more complex aetiology. When the Lancet published one paper which omitted data showing that the primary aim of the psychiatric intervention had not been achieved, I sent the ‘missing’ statistics to the editors. They refused to publish. It’s what we call misleading your readers. Why? The pro-psychiatry lobby is promoting an expensive treatment. So it’s not a question of saving tax payers’ money. This group wants to blame the victim. Bit like the BNP likes to blame immigrants. It’s a primitive, easy solution to a complex problem. In the case of Israel, I don’t think any of them in Tavistock Square really know what’s going on in the area. They’re not behaving like scientists who require evidence. Maybe blaming Israel is easier than trying to figure out how to deal with Hamas, years of propaganda etc.

The BMJ and Lancet have a reputation based on the past. Now, you get more reliable info in the News of the World. Meanwhile, we support the Gazans so they don’t have to work to buy food, support their children etc. We do it for them. About 50% of UNWRA funds comes from the EU, and the rest from the US and Arab lands. Perhaps less food might make them consider doing what Israel did. Turn desert into land. Think of ways of making money. Except Hamas have a more important aim, of destroying a neighbour. Point is, do we have to fund them so they have the food and time to do so?

Some Guardian-reading Brit-twit made life for my colleague more complex by successfully lobbying to move a business meeting away from Israel for political reasons.

Mideast politics should have no place in the BMJ.

Don’t you read any of the OTHER posts on HP?

Didn’t you realise I parodied several antisemitic claims made in another thread that

a) Jews poison food with Cancer

b) That Jews are responsible for sex mad Muslims

In this thread HERE!!!!!! http://www.hurryupharry.org/2009/02/27/get-your-kecks-off-for-the-jews/

Where the humour was equivalent to what I posted in terms of BMJ NOT (apparently) accepting a paper from an Israeli. Hence, my idea that they WOULD go for antisemitic papers.

DOH!!!!!

Kamran Abbasi is of course wholly aloof from the I/P discourse?

The argument that somebody is automatically stereotyped with regard to the I/P conflict by virtue of their name is as racist when applied to Arab names as it was racist when Richard Ingrams applied it to Jewish names. And equally disgusting.