Cornell University cancer research has been found guilty ... by association that is.
A March 26 New York Times story revealed an organization called the Foundation for Lung Cancer: Early Detection, Prevention & Treatment had research financed by a company called the Vector Group (NYSE:VGR), parent of the Liggett Group, a cigarette manufacturer. Even though the research appeared in the New England Journal of Medicine in 2006, the Times maintained that funding from a cigarette manufacturer discredited the study - not any sort of flaw in the science.
"It sounded promising - a study published two years ago in the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine claimed that an annual CT [computed tomography] scan could detect lung cancer early enough to extend a patient's life by at least ten years - a remarkable survival rate for such a deadly disease," CBS correspondent Maggie Rodriguez said on the March 27 "Early Show."
Neither Rodriguez nor The New York Times pointed to specific problems with the study's findings. It's guilt by association for Dr. Claudia Henschke of Weill Cornell Medical College, the president of the foundation.
Henschke's study, published in 2006, reported 80 percent of lung cancer deaths could be prevented through widespread use of CT scans. According to the Times article, Henschke said the source of the study's funding could have been easily found with a simple Internet search.
Although there is "outrage," according to the Times, Henschke's study has been "embraced by many lung-cancer advocacy organizations, which have pushed for legislation in California, New York and Massachusetts to create trust funds to pay for lung cancer screening."
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...and the problem with
March 27, 2008 - 17:39 ET by bigtimer...and the problem with this is what exactly with the NYT's and CBS reporter-ette... with the exception of a cigarette company doing this research, possibly saving or extending lives ect?
Oh but they care so much for other people....all programs are okay as long as it is a leftist group of some sort...not the big bad cigarette company...they are the enemy, we can't have any-one's life helped from the CT's or trust funds for such aid...unless it is one of them or someone in their family..then it would be okay I assume.
What selfish hypocrites all....
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hmm...media silent on
March 27, 2008 - 18:05 ET by RickTaLifehmm...media silent on soros-funded studies...media outraged at tobacco funded studies. Both sources cause cancer, and the cancer caused by the former attaches itself to entire societies. :-o
Guilt by association never
March 27, 2008 - 18:57 ET by kgGuilt by association never works on liberals. Just ask Obama.
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Nissen a Known Liberal
March 27, 2008 - 18:11 ET by Kyle DrennenHe is a well known anti-drug company liberal, who Time Magazine named one of the top 100 most influential "Scientists & Thinkers"in 2007. The Time profile of Dr. Nissen described him this way: "In some ways, Steve Nissen's undergraduate years at the University of Michiga – which included crusading against the Vietnam War – were the toughest period of his life. But his extracurricular activism was just the training required for his work today: a health crusader who devotes his time equally to developing medical protocols that can keep people well and exposing ones that don't." However, Rodriguez never identified Nissen in this way.
Dr. Nissen Noodles: "On the Eight Year Plan"
March 27, 2008 - 18:19 ET by SickofLibsI agree with Dr. Nissen Noodles; this is an outrage! The study AND its astounding results (80% of deaths possibly prevented) are now useless because the company funding the research was not forthcoming enough.
C'MON!: 'The Foundation for Lung Cancer: Early Detection, Prevention & Treatment?' What the hell kind of name is that? Those sneaky bastards should have named it something a bit more obvious, say like 'It's OK To Smoke Dem Marlboro Lights If You Get A Yearly CT Scan Foundation'.
From Dr. Nissen Noodles bio courtesy CNN:
"A glimpse into his background explains a lot. As an undergraduate during the turbulent 1960s at the University of Michigan, he was "on the eight-year plan," a long road to graduation, with a minor in the antiwar movement.
A political leader, really," he described himself, "and I was also editor of the daily paper -- a very good college paper."
His years as a campus activist left him with a deep-seated commitment to righting wrongs and a willingness to challenge the status quo, attributes also of his professional career. And he never forgot the power of the press."
...yeah, I guess he didn't.
Made the mistake
March 27, 2008 - 18:44 ET by BobAnthonyOf tuning in "Democracy Now!" when this story came out. The commie libtards at Pacifica did the exact same thing CBS did in their story.
Matter of fact, here it is...
http://www.democracy...
IMHO, that show should be re-named Anti-Americanism Now, or perhaps Democracy NEVER! We are a REPUBLIC!
So where is the MSM outrage over the major drug companies...
March 27, 2008 - 22:25 ET by R D Helm...having taken over the funding of drug studies over the last twenty years?
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let's face it. the times
March 27, 2008 - 22:38 ET by crsheddlet's face it.
the times did the same thing most on this site would do.
if i quoted something from the times, readers here are NOT interested in wether it is true or not, because they KNOW it wasn't true if the times uncovered it.