Released on: October 29, 2007, 9:51 am
Press Release Author: FORCES International
Industry: Entertainment
Press 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.
FORCES International will maintain a section on its international
website www.forces.org on the progress of
the complaint. The direct link to that page is http://www.forces.org/static_page/ori/complaint.php.
FORCES International is an educational non-profit organization
of volunteer workers funded by volunteer contributions.
Contacts:
USA: Maryetta Ables, President
Phone: 001 304-765-5394
EUROPE: Gian Turci, CEO
Phone: +39 010 388 459
Contacts for the signatory organizations:
Netzwerk Rauchen - FORCES Germany: Christoph Loevenich, President
Phone: +49 (0) 171 204 8698
FORCES Italiana: Gian Turci, President
Phone: +39 010 388459
Freedom to Choose: Colin Grainger, Chairman
Phone: +44 1261 842834 and (cell phone) +44-7917-366641
The Heartland Institute: Joseph Bast, President
Phone: 001 312 377 4000
Reason Foundation: Dr. Adrian Moore, Vice President
Phone: 001 661 477 3107
Bluegrass Institute for Public Policy Solutions: Jim Waters
Phone: 001 270 843 4642
Further
information on signatory contacts is available at:
http://www.forces.org/static_page/ori/complaint.php
Web Site: http://www.forces.org/static_page/ori/complaint.php
Contact
Details: Maryetta Ables, President
FORCES International
PO Box 533
Sutton WV 26601
01-304-765-5394
forces@forces.org