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Title: | THE ARABS & Fellow travellers got 724 signatures.Dr Blachar has | |||
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| Name: | PETER SM | | |||
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| City: | MELBOURNE | State: | AUSTRALIA | | |
| 3482 so far. http://www.petition.fm/petitions/ima/ From IMA rebuttal. "The "facts" brought in the letter are nothing new. The organizations cited, including Amnesty International, Physicians for Human Rights and the United Against Torture Coalition do outstanding work; however, until recently, the statements and accusations raised were very general and did not allow us to verify any claims. There were allegations made of torture, but no names were provided. The only evidence brought was the testimony of the prisoners themselves. Only in the Public Committee Against Torture in Israel (PCATI) report were names mentioned. We then made an effort, according to the best of our abilities and the resources in our possession, to check each name. Professor Avinoam Reches, Chair of the IMA`s Ethics Committee, personally spoke with each and every physician cited in the report that he was able to locate (details were incompletely or inconsistently listed in the report and so it was not possible to reach them all) . Most were never employed by, nor had any connection to, the Israeli Prison Services. Of the three who were employed there, all vigorously denied any involvement in interrogations, torture or medical approval for the above. The letter further states that Dr. Blachar has made statements which were untrue on at least 10 occasions in the Lancet and the BMJ. No basis is made for these claims other than the opinion of the authors. The signatories then blame Dr. Blachar for his rejection of the documentary record in an age of evidence-based medicine, which would be amusing were it not so chilling." |
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