Monday, September 11, 2006

Doubt raised on journal article on Haiti

A study published in British medical journal The Lancet has come into doubt due to a conflict of interest of one of the authors, Athena Kolbe. She co-wrote the article alleging that over 8,000 Haitians were killed since early 2004 and that Canadian peacekeepers in Haiti constantly threatened the locals even though she used to write advocacy articles under an alias and once worked in an orphanage founded by Jean-Bertrand Aristede.

In the meantime, the Council on Foreign relations examined Haiti’s current state of social and economic instability. (Image via this site).

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4 comments:

  1. Anonymous9:51 AM

    The authors of this report were cleared of the allegations in a Feb 2007 publication of the Lancet which said that an internal investigation found no evidence of bias.

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  2. Erwin C.2:01 PM

    I did a follow-up on The Lancet's investigation here:
    http://ourlatinamerica.blogspot.com/2007/02/follow-up-report-on-haiti-cleared-of.html

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  3. cheap viagra3:58 PM

    This is incredible because the problems of this nation seem never ending because recently they were heated by an earthquake and now they have this conflict, I hope the panorama being different for them.m10m

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  4. Sildenafil10:22 AM

    This is something really hard because time ago the Haitians have had different issues not only because the economic situation but also because of f social instability, that's something really complicated because I think their situation won't change.

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