[HARMRED] Today's letters

[Victor Pawlak]

Robert,

When I worked for a daily paper, trained as a journalist, I thought I
thoroughly checked facts and statements of those interviewed. But it
wasn't until I learned about scientific inquiry and epidemiology that I
really learned to check references. Sloppy is still sloppy, though.
Mistaking Zurich for Amsterdam ie easy enough to check in 10 seconds on
Google.

Victor

On Mon, 01 Aug 2011 09:27:42 -0400 Robert Heimer <robert.heimer at yale.edu>
writes:
> Today you published a letter from James M. Boling that included the 
> phrase "the infamous Needle Park in Amsterdam".  First of all, that 
> site 
> was in Zürich, not Amsterdam and, more importantly, the response of 
> the 
> Swiss was to establish one of the best and most comprehensive 
> addiction 
> treatment systems in the world which has more than 85% of the people 
> 
> diagnosed with addiction to heroin and other opioids in effective 
> medication assisted therapy for addiction.
> Why must the NY Times bend over backwards to give equal voice to the 
> 
> ill-informed?
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