Fed: Expert says medical journals were propaganda tools in war
An international public health expert says medical journals have functioned as unwittingpropaganda tools in the war on Iraq by talking up the threat of bioterrorism.
The Australian Medical Association's Australian Medical Journal is on a global listof journals that devoted space to articles on bioterrorism in the months leading up tothe war.
AMA spokesman MUKESH HAIKERWAL says special reports on bioterror run over several issueslast year reflected a desire by the Australian health and medical community to be preparedpost September-11 and Bali.
But Professor of Epidemiology IAN ROBERTS, of the London School of Hygiene and TropicalMedicine, says such attention may have played an important role in providing politicaljustification for the US-led invasion of Iraq.
Writing in the British Medical Journal, he's identified 124 articles on bioterror infive of the leading international journals between 1999 and 2002.
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KEYWORD: IRAQ JOURNALS (SYDNEY)
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