Posted on 11/29/2004 11:24:16 AM PST by Lesforlife
From: mail@abortionbreastcancer.com Date: November 29, 2004 11:26:02 AM MST To: "Leslie Hanks" Subject: ABORTION-BREAST CANCER NEWS HEADLINES - "The Corruption of Science by Ideology"
Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer Newsletter Dear Friends:
An editor of a bioethics journal, Ethics and Medics, has written a scathing editorial criticizing the British journal Lancet in particular and the scientific community in general for allowing ideology to corrupt science. The editorial by Ed Furton, MA, Ph.D. follows an article by Associate Professor of Surgery Angela Lanfranchi, MD, FACS in Ethics and Medics last month. Lanfranchi identified serious flaws in a Lancet "collaborative review" of the abortion-breast cancer research by Valerie Beral and her colleagues at Oxford. Here are some of Furton's quotes:
"The published study in the Lancet, purportedly one of the most definitive 'meta-analyses' yet carried out, was seriously flawed. Specifically, it omitted many studies that showed a link between abortion and breast cancer - and as Dr. Lanfranchi showed in our November 2004 issue, Beral and company could give no good reasons for those omissions....
"When a leading scientific journal allows its pages to be used as a political platform, and sets aside objective standards of scientific research, we must begin to wonder whether the spirit of (Jacques) Derrida has infected even scientific discourse....
"Picking conclusions ahead of time, and arrnging the evidence to support them, will only serve to undermine the respect that scientific inquiry deserves....
"The unwillingness of scientists to speak out against the shoddy research that is being advanced by those who deny the abortion-breast cancer link is a very serious breach....
"When the public learns that a causal link between abortion and breast cancer has been downplayed by the scientific community - for reasons that are ideological rather than factual - the feeling of betrayal will be strong...."
Furton's editorial is featured (below) in our "Abortion-Breast Cancer News Headlines."
Many in the news media, including CBS News and the Associated Press (AP), have held up the Lancet's review article as authoritative. Laura Meckler at the AP has no plans to alert women to this editorial because she claims the AP doesn't write about opinion pieces.
There are three problems with this: 1) Meckler has in her possession a factual article by Dr. Lanfranchi which identifies the flaws in the Lancet article; 2) Meckler has not told women that six medical groups recognize a causal relationship and a seventh group called on doctors last year to warn patients of a "highly plausible" relationship; and 3) Women are going to die because many secular journalists are too emotionally entangled with abortion and refuse to tell the truth.
Perhaps this will change when the daughters of journalists develop breast cancer after having had abortions.
CBS News did a program on informed consent legislation in the states on Thanksgiving Day. Its correspondents held up the Lancet review article as authoritative despite having been informed about Furton's editorial on the preceding day. They also cited as authoritative the U.S. National Cancer Institute's statement denying the link in 2003.
Ironically, another segment on the same program revealed that the government isn't a good source of health information because scientists at the Food and Drug Administration and the National Institutes for Health have a "cozy" relationship with pharmaceutical companies who pay the scientists to moonlight as consultants.
CBS News was basically reporting that government scientists can be bought. It's unfortunate that CBS journalists couldn't connect the dots to the abortion-breast cancer cover up.
CBS News interviewed me, but did not use the interview. If it had been used, then women might have learned too much - that six medical groups recognize the link.
CBS News journalists invited an expert, Jeanette Joyce, to their studio for an interview, but censored her credentials. Jeanette is a mammography educator, registered mammography technologist and mammography lecturer. She's spent many years researching and writing about breast cancer and breast imaging. She is on two boards of directors - the coalition's board and the Breast Cancer Prevention Institute's board.
However, CBS News only gave her first name and identified her as a breast cancer survivor who'd had an abortion. Its correspondent falsely claimed that Jeanette did not want her last name used.
Are there any other circumstances, other than when CBS is discussing the abortion-breast cancer link, that its journalists invite an expert to its studio for an interview, but do not identify that person as an expert? In the wake of the scandal involving Dan Rather's use of forged documents, one might have expected CBS to be up to higher standards of professionalism and integrity.
Action Items:
1) Distribute this document far and wide.
2) Contact CBS News at:
Ben Ferguson fergusonb@cbsnews.com
Cynthia Bowers bowersc@cbsnews.com
3) Contact the Associated Press at:
Laura Meckler lmeckler@ap.org
Sincerely, Karen Malec Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer
ABORTION-BREAST CANCER NEWS HEADLINES
"The Corruption of Science by Ideology" http://www.abortionbreastcancer.com/E+MDec2004-EFurtonarticle.PDF By Ed Furton, MA, Ph.D. Ethics and Medics December 2004
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The Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer is an international women's organization founded to protect the health and save the lives of women by educating and providing information on abortion as a risk factor for breast cancer.
Tax-deductible, credit card donations can be made at http://www.AbortionBreastCancer.com. Donations can be mailed to: the Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer, P.O. Box 957133, Hoffman Estates, IL 60195. The IRS recognizes the coalition as a 501(c)3 organization.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION:
Breast Cancer Prevention Institute http://www.BCPInstitute.org
Polycarp Research Institute http://www.polycarp.org
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From: mail@abortionbreastcancer.com Date: November 29, 2004 11:26:02 AM MST To: "Leslie Hanks" Subject: ABORTION-BREAST CANCER NEWS HEADLINES - "The Corruption of Science by Ideology"
Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer Newsletter Dear Friends:
An editor of a bioethics journal, Ethics and Medics, has written a scathing editorial criticizing the British journal Lancet in particular and the scientific community in general for allowing ideology to corrupt science. The editorial by Ed Furton, MA, Ph.D. follows an article by Associate Professor of Surgery Angela Lanfranchi, MD, FACS in Ethics and Medics last month. Lanfranchi identified serious flaws in a Lancet "collaborative review" of the abortion-breast cancer research by Valerie Beral and her colleagues at Oxford. Here are some of Furton's quotes:
"The published study in the Lancet, purportedly one of the most definitive 'meta-analyses' yet carried out, was seriously flawed. Specifically, it omitted many studies that showed a link between abortion and breast cancer - and as Dr. Lanfranchi showed in our November 2004 issue, Beral and company could give no good reasons for those omissions....
"When a leading scientific journal allows its pages to be used as a political platform, and sets aside objective standards of scientific research, we must begin to wonder whether the spirit of (Jacques) Derrida has infected even scientific discourse....
"Picking conclusions ahead of time, and arrnging the evidence to support them, will only serve to undermine the respect that scientific inquiry deserves....
"The unwillingness of scientists to speak out against the shoddy research that is being advanced by those who deny the abortion-breast cancer link is a very serious breach....
"When the public learns that a causal link between abortion and breast cancer has been downplayed by the scientific community - for reasons that are ideological rather than factual - the feeling of betrayal will be strong...."
Furton's editorial is featured (below) in our "Abortion-Breast Cancer News Headlines."
Many in the news media, including CBS News and the Associated Press (AP), have held up the Lancet's review article as authoritative. Laura Meckler at the AP has no plans to alert women to this editorial because she claims the AP doesn't write about opinion pieces.
There are three problems with this: 1) Meckler has in her possession a factual article by Dr. Lanfranchi which identifies the flaws in the Lancet article; 2) Meckler has not told women that six medical groups recognize a causal relationship and a seventh group called on doctors last year to warn patients of a "highly plausible" relationship; and 3) Women are going to die because many secular journalists are too emotionally entangled with abortion and refuse to tell the truth.
Perhaps this will change when the daughters of journalists develop breast cancer after having had abortions.
CBS News did a program on informed consent legislation in the states on Thanksgiving Day. Its correspondents held up the Lancet review article as authoritative despite having been informed about Furton's editorial on the preceding day. They also cited as authoritative the U.S. National Cancer Institute's statement denying the link in 2003.
Ironically, another segment on the same program revealed that the government isn't a good source of health information because scientists at the Food and Drug Administration and the National Institutes for Health have a "cozy" relationship with pharmaceutical companies who pay the scientists to moonlight as consultants.
CBS News was basically reporting that government scientists can be bought. It's unfortunate that CBS journalists couldn't connect the dots to the abortion-breast cancer cover up.
CBS News interviewed me, but did not use the interview. If it had been used, then women might have learned too much - that six medical groups recognize the link.
CBS News journalists invited an expert, Jeanette Joyce, to their studio for an interview, but censored her credentials. Jeanette is a mammography educator, registered mammography technologist and mammography lecturer. She's spent many years researching and writing about breast cancer and breast imaging. She is on two boards of directors - the coalition's board and the Breast Cancer Prevention Institute's board.
However, CBS News only gave her first name and identified her as a breast cancer survivor who'd had an abortion. Its correspondent falsely claimed that Jeanette did not want her last name used.
Are there any other circumstances, other than when CBS is discussing the abortion-breast cancer link, that its journalists invite an expert to its studio for an interview, but do not identify that person as an expert? In the wake of the scandal involving Dan Rather's use of forged documents, one might have expected CBS to be up to higher standards of professionalism and integrity.
Action Items:
1) Distribute this document far and wide.
2) Contact CBS News at:
Ben Ferguson fergusonb@cbsnews.com
Cynthia Bowers bowersc@cbsnews.com
3) Contact the Associated Press at:
Laura Meckler lmeckler@ap.org
Sincerely, Karen Malec Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer
ABORTION-BREAST CANCER NEWS HEADLINES
"The Corruption of Science by Ideology" http://www.abortionbreastcancer.com/E+MDec2004-EFurtonarticle.PDF By Ed Furton, MA, Ph.D. Ethics and Medics December 2004
#####
The Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer is an international women's organization founded to protect the health and save the lives of women by educating and providing information on abortion as a risk factor for breast cancer.
Tax-deductible, credit card donations can be made at http://www.AbortionBreastCancer.com. Donations can be mailed to: the Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer, P.O. Box 957133, Hoffman Estates, IL 60195. The IRS recognizes the coalition as a 501(c)3 organization.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION:
Breast Cancer Prevention Institute http://www.BCPInstitute.org
Polycarp Research Institute http://www.polycarp.org
This newsletter can be viewed online at: http://www.abortionbreastcancer.com/news/041129/index.htm Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer P.O. Box 957133 Hoffman Estates, IL 60195-3051
Toll Free: 877.803.0102 Local Calls: 847.421.4000 Email: response@abortionbreastcancer.com Web Page: http://www.abortionbreastcancer.com
To unsubscribe from this newsletter, click the link below: http://pub43.bravenet.com/elist/add.php?action=leave&usernum=3670259665&emailaddress=lesforlife@earthlink.net
From: mail@abortionbreastcancer.com Date: November 29, 2004 11:26:02 AM MST To: "Leslie Hanks" Subject: ABORTION-BREAST CANCER NEWS HEADLINES - "The Corruption of Science by Ideology"
Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer Newsletter Dear Friends:
An editor of a bioethics journal, Ethics and Medics, has written a scathing editorial criticizing the British journal Lancet in particular and the scientific community in general for allowing ideology to corrupt science. The editorial by Ed Furton, MA, Ph.D. follows an article by Associate Professor of Surgery Angela Lanfranchi, MD, FACS in Ethics and Medics last month. Lanfranchi identified serious flaws in a Lancet "collaborative review" of the abortion-breast cancer research by Valerie Beral and her colleagues at Oxford. Here are some of Furton's quotes:
"The published study in the Lancet, purportedly one of the most definitive 'meta-analyses' yet carried out, was seriously flawed. Specifically, it omitted many studies that showed a link between abortion and breast cancer - and as Dr. Lanfranchi showed in our November 2004 issue, Beral and company could give no good reasons for those omissions....
"When a leading scientific journal allows its pages to be used as a political platform, and sets aside objective standards of scientific research, we must begin to wonder whether the spirit of (Jacques) Derrida has infected even scientific discourse....
"Picking conclusions ahead of time, and arrnging the evidence to support them, will only serve to undermine the respect that scientific inquiry deserves....
"The unwillingness of scientists to speak out against the shoddy research that is being advanced by those who deny the abortion-breast cancer link is a very serious breach....
"When the public learns that a causal link between abortion and breast cancer has been downplayed by the scientific community - for reasons that are ideological rather than factual - the feeling of betrayal will be strong...."
Furton's editorial is featured (below) in our "Abortion-Breast Cancer News Headlines."
Many in the news media, including CBS News and the Associated Press (AP), have held up the Lancet's review article as authoritative. Laura Meckler at the AP has no plans to alert women to this editorial because she claims the AP doesn't write about opinion pieces.
There are three problems with this: 1) Meckler has in her possession a factual article by Dr. Lanfranchi which identifies the flaws in the Lancet article; 2) Meckler has not told women that six medical groups recognize a causal relationship and a seventh group called on doctors last year to warn patients of a "highly plausible" relationship; and 3) Women are going to die because many secular journalists are too emotionally entangled with abortion and refuse to tell the truth.
Perhaps this will change when the daughters of journalists develop breast cancer after having had abortions.
CBS News did a program on informed consent legislation in the states on Thanksgiving Day. Its correspondents held up the Lancet review article as authoritative despite having been informed about Furton's editorial on the preceding day. They also cited as authoritative the U.S. National Cancer Institute's statement denying the link in 2003.
Ironically, another segment on the same program revealed that the government isn't a good source of health information because scientists at the Food and Drug Administration and the National Institutes for Health have a "cozy" relationship with pharmaceutical companies who pay the scientists to moonlight as consultants.
CBS News was basically reporting that government scientists can be bought. It's unfortunate that CBS journalists couldn't connect the dots to the abortion-breast cancer cover up.
CBS News interviewed me, but did not use the interview. If it had been used, then women might have learned too much - that six medical groups recognize the link.
CBS News journalists invited an expert, Jeanette Joyce, to their studio for an interview, but censored her credentials. Jeanette is a mammography educator, registered mammography technologist and mammography lecturer. She's spent many years researching and writing about breast cancer and breast imaging. She is on two boards of directors - the coalition's board and the Breast Cancer Prevention Institute's board.
However, CBS News only gave her first name and identified her as a breast cancer survivor who'd had an abortion. Its correspondent falsely claimed that Jeanette did not want her last name used.
Are there any other circumstances, other than when CBS is discussing the abortion-breast cancer link, that its journalists invite an expert to its studio for an interview, but do not identify that person as an expert? In the wake of the scandal involving Dan Rather's use of forged documents, one might have expected CBS to be up to higher standards of professionalism and integrity.
Action Items:
1) Distribute this document far and wide.
2) Contact CBS News at:
Ben Ferguson fergusonb@cbsnews.com
Cynthia Bowers bowersc@cbsnews.com
3) Contact the Associated Press at:
Laura Meckler lmeckler@ap.org
Sincerely, Karen Malec Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer
ABORTION-BREAST CANCER NEWS HEADLINES
"The Corruption of Science by Ideology" http://www.abortionbreastcancer.com/E+MDec2004-EFurtonarticle.PDF By Ed Furton, MA, Ph.D. Ethics and Medics December 2004
#####
The Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer is an international women's organization founded to protect the health and save the lives of women by educating and providing information on abortion as a risk factor for breast cancer.
Tax-deductible, credit card donations can be made at http://www.AbortionBreastCancer.com. Donations can be mailed to: the Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer, P.O. Box 957133, Hoffman Estates, IL 60195. The IRS recognizes the coalition as a 501(c)3 organization.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION:
Breast Cancer Prevention Institute http://www.BCPInstitute.org
Polycarp Research Institute http://www.polycarp.org
This newsletter can be viewed online at: http://www.abortionbreastcancer.com/news/041129/index.htm Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer P.O. Box 957133 Hoffman Estates, IL 60195-3051
Toll Free: 877.803.0102 Local Calls: 847.421.4000 Email: response@abortionbreastcancer.com Web Page: http://www.abortionbreastcancer.com
To unsubscribe from this newsletter, click the link below: http://pub43.bravenet.com/elist/add.php?action=leave&usernum=3670259665&emailaddress=lesforlife@earthlink.net
Can't go letting little things like facts and the health of women get in the way of the abortion agenda now can we!
Dr. Edward Furton of the National Catholic Bioethics Center in Boston...
As if I would listen to anything he has to say... A catholic with an agenda to try and force me to do things because of his beliefs...
Another lie... Not the first nor the last coming from the minions of the RCC...
Never mind the facts?
Cordially,
Scientists that look the other way at fraudulent "studies" are damaging their field just as the Creationists are damaging religion, and cannot see that fact for themselves. Both undermine the credibility of their work.
I have read the facts... They remind me a lot of the RCC, trying to frighten people with false things, in one case Hell and Jesus and all the mishmash and in this case trying to frighten women with false facts on abortion...
Same modus operandi, same perps!
I wonder if the increase in abortions has anything to do with the increase in breast cancer? Oh, there is no connection, yea, right, coincidence.
Not really... Correlations never mean causation... You may for instance look at the increase in all types of cancer, the increase in life expectancy and the decrease in other illnesses' incidence because of better medecine... All these are similarly correlated to the increase in breast cancer rates...
trying to say it is because of abortion, without proof (and the studies are there to show there are no proof) is akin to trying to frighten people into believing in the Church because of an imaginary "Hell"......
No difference!
If women wo got abortions got more breast cancer what would that tell you?
Could you please explain how the eye evolved? How a blind animal knew there was something to see.
You are correct, correlation does not necessarily mean causation. But the issue here is that the science embodied by these studies has been systematically swept under the rug due to politics - and (as a result) very little has been done to sort out the possible causative relationship between abortion and breast cancer.
You claim that "the studies are there to show there are no proof", but I am curious about those studies - and why they are to be so much more heavily trusted than the studies that show correlation.
Also, the way you phrase your rebuttal sounds like you are claiming negative proof. Scientifically, that's a tall order.
If you can not prove there is no heaven or hell, which you can not, then we are both allowed to believe whatever we want and either position is equally plausible.
If women who got abortions got more breast cancer then you would have to consider a connection.
You obviously have no children, if you did you would not be pro-abortion and anti-God.
Let's put that I have read the studies and compared them... the one that makes the most sense is the big european (I don't remember if it was danish or norwegian... Danish I believe) that showed no link...
But let us be honest: even if these studies showed with no doubt that there is no correlation, the RCC lobby would still peddle it... They are trying to frighten women, not convince them...
Even better: there is a clear link between post-partum depression and mania and pregnancy... So that women that become pregnant and are prone to these depressions should get abortions for their health... When did you hear the RCC speak of this?
This isn't about women's health but about trying to impose their views on the bodies of women!
BTW:
its has been noted since the 17th century that nuns had a higher rate of breast cancer than other women (having children does reduce the risk)... Where were the RCC questions about it and thinking that a life of virginity was increasing the rate of illnesses? Can you quote it?
Murderers often die because of their crimes.
I hear a voice of one whom has gotten an abortion and wants to convince themselves there was nothing wrong with that and every woman should do it too.
Animals who kill their own young are looked on as being disfunctional and demented. Women who drown their own children are prosecuted. Men who kill their pregnant wives are charged with 2 murders. Now you can make your case for abortion but it does not appear to be clear cut.
I'm not in a position to contradict you on factual terms, honestly (I don't work in this field, nor do I spend much time studying the internals of the studies), but I do find it striking that you have succinctly rephrased the exact charge being made against the "suppressed" research (suppressed in quotes to avoid arguing that aspect, BTW).
One way or the other, the data should be exposed and explored. To allow ideology to dictate otherwise - in either direction - is reckless and indefensible.
Even better: there is a clear link between post-partum depression and mania and pregnancy... So that women that become pregnant and are prone to these depressions should get abortions for their health... When did you hear the RCC speak of this?
Interesting... You are prescribing death for the unborn in order to resolve a disorder that is treatable with other means. Do you also ascribe to shooting people with broken legs? Hyperbole has little place in this discussion, IMO.
It's kinda like looking over your shoulder all your live waiting for the homicide cop to finally catch up with you.
Yep, all over FR, spreading the word about how everyone should have an abortion. With a healthy dose of anti Christianty thrown in for good measure.
Correlations can mean causation, but do not necessarily mean causation.
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