On Aug. 17, the newspaper reproduced an opinion published in the Wall Street Journal (“Another side effect of U.S. lockdowns”) that quoted results of a Lancet Oncology study (Vol. But to blame health policymakers for misleading the public and causing excess health morbidity is shortsighted and shameful. Still, the Wall Street Journal made up its own conclusion, implicating lockdown policies as a cause of delay in cancer detection and treatment, while choosing to ignore the social determinants of disease. In choosing to misinterpret a major scientific publication and invent its own unsupported conclusion, while ignoring volumes of medical and public health studies that speak against its biases, the Wall Street Journal has joined them to degrade the integrity of our sciences, undermine our social cohesion, and ultimately endanger our lives and the safety of our nation. In this case, the Wall Street Journal betrayed us miserably in these expectations.

Source: Wall Street Journal September 02, 2023 19:10 UTC