[ RadSafe ] U.S. Army delays, alters medical studies under little-known scientific censorship program

[Maury Siskel]

Seems appropriate that the List should be at least aware of this 
practice or possibility.
Best,
Maury&Dog (Maury Siskel maurysis at peoplepc.com)
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"U.S. Army delays, alters medical studies under little-known scientific 
censorship program" by Bryant Furlow, October 21.

Since 2006 U.S. Army censors have scrutinized hundreds of medical 
studies, scientific posters, abstracts and Powerpoint presentations 
authored by doctors and scientists at Walter Reed and other Army medical 
research centers—part of a little-known prepublication review process 
called "Actionable Medical Information Review."

More than 300 scientific documents have been reviewed by Army censors to 
date. Fewer than half of them have been cleared for public disclosure in 
their original form.

The program is intended to deny Iraqi and Afghan insurgents sensitive 
data such as combat injury and death rates. But dozens of studies 
reviewed under the program did not involve research directly related to 
combat operations. Instead, they described controversial topics like the 
effects of war on soldiers' children, hospital-acquired infections, 
post-deployment adjustment issues, refugees, suicide, alcoholism, 
vaccines, cancer among veterans and problems with military health care 
databases.

An Army epidemiologist has been threatened with disciplinary action for 
allegedly violating the policy after sending a letter to Stars & Stripes 
lamenting the Pentagon's inadequate resources for tracking and studying 
diseases—as Congress requires