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In reply to the discussion: British medical journal editor ‘deeply’ regrets anti-Israel letter [View all]King_David
(14,851 posts)A senior Israeli scientist has resigned from an advisory board of prestigious medical journal Lancet and accused the editor of publishing an open letter criticising Israel despite knowing that the authors had conflicts of interest.
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The Weizmann Institute of Science, where Prof. Eli Pollak is chairman of the Chemical Physics Dept
Professor Eli Pollak, Sam and Ayala Zacks, Professorial Chair and Chairman of the Chemical Physics Department at the Weizmann Institute of Science (pictured), told bosses at publishing giant Elsevier that he was resigning as a member of the Advisory Editorial Board of Chemical Physics.
In his resignation letter to the publishers chairman, chief executive and vice-president, Pollak said he felt saddened that he could no longer lend his name to an organisation which has failed to uphold minimal ethical standards.
His forced departure is the latest show of anger from within the medical profession, after the Lancet published An open letter for the people of Gaza on 28 July, in the middle of the conflict.
Among the 24 authors were prominent Italian geneticist Prof. Paola Manduca, British health services researcher Sir Iain Chalmers, London psychiatrist Dr. Derek Summerfied, Singaporean medic Swee Ang and Norwegian doctor Mads Gilbert.
Several of the authors went to Gaza to volunteer during the fighting, with Ang recalling how she was taken aside, interrogated in a very humiliating way for three hours, detained, and then deported.
http://www.jewishnews.co.uk/lancet-gaza/
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