Bogus Gold

Check out this post from Swiftee regarding the recent AMA report about how an unborn fetus doesn't feel pain before the third trimester.

Couple of days ago, I posted a story about a report published by the Journal of the American Medical Association that, at that time, was being attributed to two "doctors" at UCSF Medical Center.

I said then that the report, which purported to suggest that an unborn fetus being ripped from the womb feels no discomfort, is nothing more than a laughable bit of quackery and an embarressment to any competent scientist.

It seems that I may have understated the case.

Indeed, he might have. Check out the rest of the post for details.

This is hardly the only problem confronting this study (see Swiftee's original post on this for more), but it seems to be the one most suggestive of political advocacy interfering with proper scientific objectivity, and laxity at the Journal of the AMA letting it pass without proper scrutiny.