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Release Summary: FORCES’s complaint concerns several worrisome
aspects of the SG Report, including deficient data-gathering methodology,
data cherry-picking, and misrepresentation of flimsy evidence, which
reveal not simply bias, but a clear determination to reach or reinforce
predetermined political conclusions.
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Release Body: 29-Oct-2007 – USA - FORCES International
has presented an official complaint based on rigorous scientific
analysis of the 2006 Surgeon General’s (SG) Report on Passive
Smoking to the Office of Research Integrity (ORI) of the United
States in Washington, DC, and the complaint has been forwarded to
the Inspector General of the Department of Health and Human Services.
FORCES’s complaint concerns several worrisome
aspects of the SG Report, including deficient data-gathering methodology,
data cherry-picking, and misrepresentation of flimsy evidence, which
reveal not simply bias, but a clear determination to reach or reinforce
predetermined political conclusions.
Based on such sham scientific bases, smoking bans are implemented
in the United States and abroad, and have severe negative impacts
on both the economies and the social fabric.
“Considering how serious and widespread this institutional
problem is, we realize that we will not change the world overnight,”
said Gian Turci, FORCES International CEO, “but
we are morally and ethically compelled to report this grave misconduct
of the SG to the ORI.”
Maryetta Ables, President of the organization,
stated: “Innocent smoking citizens have become target
practice for discrimination and social hatred. They are accused
of anything from being killers to child abusers, all based on junk
science, propagated with an appalling blindness to scientific and
social ethics.”
The complaint has been presented also on behalf of several foreign
branches of FORCES (such as FORCES Germany and
FORCES Italy), as well as affiliate organizations such as the UK's
Freedom to Choose, and other independent organizations.
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