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Lancet Medical Journal under Attack for "Extremist Hate Propaganda" over Coverage of Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
(Independent-UK) Jeremy Laurance - The Lancet medical journal and its editor, Richard Horton, have been targeted over what an international group of more than 500 doctors claims is the "grossly irresponsible misuse of [the journal] for political purposes." The protesting doctors, including five Nobel laureates, accuse the journal of publishing "stereotypical extremist hate propaganda" and threated to boycott the journal if publisher Reed Elsevier does not "enforce appropriate ethical standards of editorship." The trigger was an article published last July during the Gaza fighting, which included eyewitness accounts of the medical impact on civilians but did not include an acknowledgement of Hamas' role in the war.