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From:
Edgar A. Suter MD, Chair
Doctors for Integrity in Research & Public Policy
CIS:73407,3647 (uploaded at Dr. Suter's request)
To:
All interested
Re:
Guns... Junk science and law
February 23, 1994
The outrageous deceptions of the victim disarmament lobby
are known to many, but their deceptions and hysterical
imagery still cloud the public debate.
Recent Rolling Stone and Mother Jones articles parroted
much of the prohibitionist's familiar junk science and law.
Readers are encouraged to download and review pre-
publication manuscripts of a series of articles that will
begin appearing with the March 1994 issue (available March
10, 1994) of the Journal of the Medical Association of
Georgia.
"Guns in the Medical Literature -- A Failure of Peer
Review" exposes the illogic, tortured data, and ignored data
that has been the vaporous essence of the prohibitionist's
"public health emergency" deception. The article is
thoroughly referenced and guides readers to Kates' and
Blackman's studies of outright data fabrication and lies in
the medical literature on guns. "Guns in the Medical
Literature -- A Failure of Peer Review" reviews representative
samples of bias and incompetence in the medical literature on
guns. Special attention is paid to the fallacies promulgated
by Kellermann -- the father of the "43 times" and the "2.7
times" fallacies.
"'Assault Weapons' Revisited -- An Analysis of the AMA
Report" reviews all 28 of the available studies on assault
weapons - 27 studies show that assault weapons are not and
are not likely to become a problem. The 1 study that found
otherwise, the only "study" considered by the AMA in it's
position paper supporting the ban of semiautomatic weapons,
was based on gun trace data. "'Assault Weapons' Revisited --An
Analysis of the AMA Report" quotes the Congressional Research
Service, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (BATF),
and the FBI to explain why gun trace data cannot be used for
statistical purposes. All the issues related to the "assault
weapon" hysteria are explored.
"The Right to Keep and Bear Arms -- A Primer for
Physicians" explores the deceptions and outright lies of
prohibitionist claims that there is no individual right to
arms and ammunition. As a representative sample of
misinformation, this article exposes the half-truths and
deceptions of Vernick and Teret in their December 1993
article on the American Journal of Public Health, the
article cited by Mother Jones as supporting the
prohibitionist view. "The Right to Keep and Bear Arms -- A
Primer for Physicians" discusses not only Supreme Court case
law and the historical basis of the right, but also discusses
the racist and oppressive roots of gun control. Not only were
Vernick and Teret out of touch with case law, they were
unfamiliar even with the contemporary legal literature. Of 37
articles on the RKBA in the legal literature since 1980, 33
support the individual right view and dispute the "collective
right only" view of the RKBA. Of the remaining pathetic
minority of 4 articles, 2 were written by an employee of
Handgun Control Inc., one by a non-attorney lobbyist for the
National Coalition to Ban Handguns, and only one was a peer
reviewed article. The reader is provided all 37 references
and more.
I hope that at least one enterprising reader uses the data
from the three articles to compose a well-reasoned and
thoroughly referenced rebuttals to the junk science and law
parroted in Rolling Stone and Mother Jones.
If a formatted 3.5" floppy disk and stamped, self-
addressed envelope is provided, I will provide the files in
either Macintosh Word 5.0 or MS-DOS Word Perfect 5.1 format.
Unfortunately I can provide the graphs of the "Guns in the
Medical Literature -- A Failure of Peer Review" article only
in Macintosh FreeHand 4.0 format.
Mail those or other requests to:
Edgar A. Suter MD
Doctors for Integrity in Research & Public Policy
CIS:73407,3647
Thank you and best regards,
Edgar A. Suter, MD