Selective prosecution of scientists must stop

Attacks on civilians and hospitals must stop.

www.thelancet.com/lancetgh Published online March 21, 2016 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S2214-109X(16)00070-X 1 denounce unlawful behaviour, engage with armed groups and affected populations to encourage compliance with the Geneva Conventions, and reconfirm the legitimacy of international humanitarian law. By doing so, the sanctity of humanitarian action can be upheld and human itarian actors and ...

How to Avoid Spreading Error Scientists Must Search for Corrections

In 1954 Conway Zirkle reviewed the fascinating history of the patterns and context of citations to the falsified scientific experiments published by Viennese zoologist Paul Kammerer. Using two types of salamanders and the male of the midwife toad, Kammerer claimed in the 1920s to have shown that acquired characteristics were inherited. But, as Zirkle recounts, “the acquired characters ... turne...

The killing of doctors in Iraq must stop.

O n 29 March 2011 Professor Mohammed Alwan, dean of AlMustansiriya Medical School in Baghdad and my uncle, was assassinated. A bomb was planted in his car and exploded as he got in after leaving his medical practice. He was a distinguished academic and surgeon who was respected by his students, and he was a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. Within a week, another clinical acad...

FGM: the mutilation of girls and young women must stop.

Canada and UK must stop taking African doctors.

does, however, “show the danger of a specialty relying on 1 operation,” says Ross. And he admits that new graduates are having a “tough time finding work” in Canada and the US. Dr. Stephen Fremes, head of cardiac surgery at Sunnybrook and Women’s College Health Sciences Centre in Toronto estimates that 10 to 15 newly certified cardiac surgeons in Canada are currently without full-time work. Ten...