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The Interface on Thursday, January 28, 2010 12:17:13 AM
First, a summary of the story as reported here (emphasis added):In February 2003, Dr. Louise Brinton, the National Cancer Institute's chief of the Environmental Epidemiology Branch, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, served as chairperson at an NCI workshop in Bethesda, Md., to assess whether abortion was implicated as a breast cancer risk.
In the opinion of "over 100 of the world's leading experts," said the subsequent NCI report, including Dr. Brinton, the answer was no.
One expert disallowed from participating was Dr. Joel Brind, a biology and endocrinology professor who had co-authored a metaanalysis [a combined statistical study; idiot Townhall censor won't allow real name with hyphen between the a's!] demonstrating an abortion/breast cancer (ABC) link.
Brind protested that the outcome was predetermined by "experts" handpicked by Dr. Brinton who either were not really experts, were dependent on the NCI or other government agencies for grants, or were pro-abortion extremists, such as two who had previously provided paid "expert" court testimony on behalf of abortionists.
Studies concluding there was not an ABC link were included in the workshop analysis; studies concluding there was were not.
At the time, 29 out of 38 studies conducted worldwide over 40 years showed an increased ABC risk, but the NCI workshop nevertheless concluded it was "well established" that "induced abortion is not associated with an increase in breast cancer risk."
Brind went on to write a minority report NCI alludes to on its website without publishing or listing its author and did not even mention in its workshop summary report.
Life went on, except for post-abortive women inflicted with breast cancer anyway.
Yes, folks, we have another coverup by the scientific community, but this time the consequences are much more disastrous on a personal human level. One could call this Abortiongate if one were so inclined (I’m not particularly) because the similarities to the so-called Climategate and other such scandals is striking. Data contrary to the desired outcome are ignored and buried, while loudly touting the falsified picture as the truth. So how do we know about this? The story continues:
But six years later something happened. Dr. Brinton either flipped her lid, flipped ideologies, restudied the evidence and decided to recant, or couldn't sleep at night – and she began righting her wrong.
In April 2009, Brinton co-authored a research paper published in the prestigious journal Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers and Prevention, which concluded that the risk of a particularly deadly form of breast cancer that attacks women under 40 raises 40 percent if a woman has had an abortion.
Curiously, the paper included as corroboration two studies Brinton's 2003 NCI "experts" had rejected. More curiously, it turns out Brinton co-authored one of those two studies.
For nine months, that little bombshell of a disaster for pro-abortion ideology was published without the NCI acknowledging it or changing its stance.
Then this month, Brind spotted and wrote about Brinton's concession and NCI's hypocrisy.
You can read the original for all the resulting machinations. The next critical question to ask is Why? Why this coverup if women’s health, indeed, their very lives, are at stake? Very succinctly put:
Pro-aborts are understandably mum about Brinton's concession. Confirmation of the ABC link would eviscerate public acceptance and participation in abortion. Exposure of a long-term cover-up would eviscerate the savings accounts of abortionists and the abortion industry following lawsuit losses of a magnitude as great as or greater than the class-action lawsuits against tobacco companies.
One can only hope someone will have the guts and the money to do just that. In the meantime, share this information with every young woman you know.