Misogynists and other RWers, even their "scientists", just lie and lie and lie. They can't help themselves.
Researchers Behind Abortion Pill Studies Land In Hot Water With Science Journal
The studies raised questions about the safety of the drug mifepristone, the most common method of ending a pregnancy.
Two studies used to justify a crackdown on mifepristone access were retracted Monday by the scientific publisher Sage over undeclared conflicts of interest with anti-abortion groups and a “lack of scientific rigor” used in the research.
Both of the studies have been used by anti-abortion plaintiffs and conservative federal judges in Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine v. FDA to cast doubt on the Food and Drug Administration’s longstanding approval of the drug, which is used in the most common method of abortion in the United States.
The case is scheduled to go before the U.S. Supreme Court next month.
The academic publisher said in a statement that it took a closer look at the studies in response to a reader’s concerns.
“Sage confirmed that all but one of the article’s authors had an affiliation with one or more of Charlotte Lozier Institute, Elliot Institute, and American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians and Gynecologists, all pro-life advocacy organizations, despite having declared they had no conflicts of interest when they submitted the article for publication or in the article itself,” the publisher said.
“As a result of Sage’s inquiry into the authors’ conflicts of interest, Sage became aware that a peer reviewer who evaluated the article for initial publication also was affiliated with Charlotte Lozier Institute at the time of the review.”
Busted.
Researchers James Studnicki and Tessa Longbons said in a statement to States Newsroom that the retractions constituted a “baseless ideological attack on our scientific research and experts.”
Who does that sound like?
Studnicki is also the vice president of the anti-abortion Charlotte Lozier Institute.
Opps.
... U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk cited the “Longitudinal” and “Post Hoc” research in his April opinion that would have revoked the FDA’s decision in 2000 to approve mifepristone....
Opps. Judge
Matthew Kacsmaryk was appointed by ex-PINO.
Kacsmaryk was born in 1977 in Gainesville, Florida. His mother, Dorothy, was a microbiologist; ... (who) chose to stay home with her children and was passionate about anti-abortion issues. He graduated from Abilene Christian University in 1999 with a Bachelor of Arts, summa cum laude. He then attended the University of Texas School of Law, where he was an executive editor of the conservative Texas Review of Law & Politics....
From 2014 to 2019, he worked for First Liberty Institute, where he held the position of deputy general counsel. Reuters described Kacsmaryk as a "one-time Christian activist", noting that First Liberty Institute is "a Christian conservative legal group that pursues religious-liberty cases". While working for First Liberty Institute in 2015, he submitted an amicus brief for a lawsuit in the Supreme Court, and argued against a Washington law mandating that pharmacies are required to provide contraceptives.
Kacsmaryk has been a member of the Fort Worth chapter of the Federalist Society since 2012....
He has worked on cases opposing certain LGBT protections in housing, employment, and health care. He has referred to homosexuality as "disordered", and to being transgender as a "delusion" and a "mental disorder". He opposed the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court ruling that had legalized abortion in the United States....
Conservative groups have strategically chosen to file lawsuits challenging many Biden administration policies in Kacsmaryk's division.... Legal experts have cited the practice as an example of "forum shopping" or "judge shopping."
... In 2021, Kacsmaryk ordered the reinstatement of the "Remain in Mexico" policy, a Trump administration policy that required asylum seekers to wait outside U.S. territory while their claims are processed. In his order, he said that the Biden administration had ended the policy without fully considering the consequences. His decision was overturned by the Supreme Court of the United States on June 30, 2022.
Opps, shot down by even this SCOTUS. How embarrassing!
In November 2022, Kacsmaryk ruled that the Biden administration violated the Administrative Procedure Act by interpreting the Affordable Care Act to enforce the prohibition of discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity within "on the basis of sex".
Also in 2022, Kacsmaryk vacated protections for transgender workers enacted by the Biden administration, citing Bostock v. Clayton County saying that Title VII "prohibits employers from discriminating against employees for being gay or transgender, "but not necessarily [in the case of] all correlated conduct."
He's on an unpatriotic christofascist crusade
Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine v. FDA
... On April 7, 2023, Kacsmaryk issued a preliminary ruling suspending the FDA's approval of mifepristone. Within an hour, another federal district judge—Thomas O. Rice of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Washington—issued a diametrically opposite ruling in a separate lawsuit, ordering the FDA to refrain from any actions to reduce the availability of mifepristone in 17 U.S. states and the District of Columbia.... Anti-abortion advocates praised his ruling, while abortion rights advocates denounced Kacsmaryk by accusing him of twisting laws.
Observers argued that in the written opinion, Kacsmaryk repeatedly used terminology employed by anti-abortion movements. He insisted on using the terms "unborn human" or "unborn child" in place of 'fetus', asserting: "Jurists often use the word 'fetus' to inaccurately identify unborn humans in unscientific ways." He further wrote that mifepristone is used to "to kill the unborn human" and "starves the unborn human until death". Kacsmaryk also called doctors who provide abortions "abortionists," and medication abortion "chemical abortion."
As I said, misogynists just lie and lie and lie. I think it's safe to assume that Kacsmaryk won't retract his citations of "science" now shown to be dishonest and sloppy.
... On April 21, 2023, a majority of the Supreme Court of the United States, without comment, voted to indefinitely implement an emergency stay all the restrictions against mifepristone while the lawsuit continued in the lower courts.
Phew, for now.
Disclosure controversies
(too much to excerpt)
Figures, that's how RW assholes are.
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