is the last person who should be writing about the unfolding disaster that is the Israeli Governm... more is the last person who should be writing about the unfolding disaster that is the Israeli Government and its genocidal leader Benjamin Netanyahu. It needs to be remembered that the IDF has been violating the 49 th Geneva Convention by firing on ambulances, and killing more than 700 health workers, as well as more than 100 journalists and media workers. Israel has also destroyed all but a handful of the 36 pre-existing hospitals in the Gaza strip. None of this is mentioned by Mr Emanuel who demonstrates his own fascist tendencies when he writes that students protesting in support of Gazans are "antisemitic thugs". Really.? This is the sort of racist language that persuaded Nazi thugs that it was OK to harass and exterminate Jews before and during WW2; and we all know how that ended.
This paper uses my extensive and unique experience of winning multiple environmental and health c... more This paper uses my extensive and unique experience of winning multiple environmental and health campaigns in the 80s, and contrasts these successes with the intractable nature of global warming This ms, or previous versions, some as short as 2000 words has been rejected by the Lancet, the NEJM, the BMJ and most recently by Oxford Open Climate Change ( OOCC) No editor offered cogent reasons for rejection; no one offered any factual corrections and only the OOCC reproduced referee comments which were trivial The main problem was that the article was “too personal” Or “unsuitable for our readership” Personally I cannot think of a more vital topic
The first time that any medical journal addressed the issue of global warming was this unsigned e... more The first time that any medical journal addressed the issue of global warming was this unsigned editorial published by the Lancet on April 13 1989 titled “Health in the Greenhouse” and authored by RRJ 35 years later the editorial was the subject of a Lancet Essay by DS Jones, Professor of Science History at Harvard, and titled “Still Seeking Health in the Greenhouse” and published by the Lancet on April 15 2024
is the last person who should be writing about the unfolding disaster that is the Israeli Governm... more is the last person who should be writing about the unfolding disaster that is the Israeli Government and its genocidal leader Benjamin Netanyahu. It needs to be remembered that the IDF has been violating the 49 th Geneva Convention by firing on ambulances, and killing more than 700 health workers, as well as more than 100 journalists and media workers. Israel has also destroyed all but a handful of the 36 pre-existing hospitals in the Gaza strip. None of this is mentioned by Mr Emanuel who demonstrates his own fascist tendencies when he writes that students protesting in support of Gazans are "antisemitic thugs". Really.? This is the sort of racist language that persuaded Nazi thugs that it was OK to harass and exterminate Jews before and during WW2; and we all know how that ended.
This paper uses my extensive and unique experience of winning multiple environmental and health c... more This paper uses my extensive and unique experience of winning multiple environmental and health campaigns in the 80s, and contrasts these successes with the intractable nature of global warming This ms, or previous versions, some as short as 2000 words has been rejected by the Lancet, the NEJM, the BMJ and most recently by Oxford Open Climate Change ( OOCC) No editor offered cogent reasons for rejection; no one offered any factual corrections and only the OOCC reproduced referee comments which were trivial The main problem was that the article was “too personal” Or “unsuitable for our readership” Personally I cannot think of a more vital topic
The first time that any medical journal addressed the issue of global warming was this unsigned e... more The first time that any medical journal addressed the issue of global warming was this unsigned editorial published by the Lancet on April 13 1989 titled “Health in the Greenhouse” and authored by RRJ 35 years later the editorial was the subject of a Lancet Essay by DS Jones, Professor of Science History at Harvard, and titled “Still Seeking Health in the Greenhouse” and published by the Lancet on April 15 2024
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35 years later the editorial was the subject of a Lancet Essay by DS Jones, Professor of Science History at Harvard, and titled “Still Seeking Health in the Greenhouse” and published by the Lancet on April 15 2024
35 years later the editorial was the subject of a Lancet Essay by DS Jones, Professor of Science History at Harvard, and titled “Still Seeking Health in the Greenhouse” and published by the Lancet on April 15 2024