The Sandwich Method of Gun Control “Journalism”

By Ammoland

USA – -(Ammoland.com)- At Doctors for Responsible Gun Ownership (DRGO) we’ve often written about advocacy science, which really isn’t science at all.

Rather, it is politics masquerading as science. There’s also such a thing as advocacy journalism, which really isn’t journalism at all. It is politics masquerading as journalism.

DRGO recently was approached by Kaiser Health News reporter Shefali Luthra for a story on the latest pediatric journal article aimed at shoring up the case for doctors probing their patients about guns in their homes.

The Journal of Pediatrics article surveyed parents in several urban pediatrics practices, probing their attitudes on pediatricians questioning them about their gun ownership. The matter has assumed urgency among the anti-gun rights pediatric academic establishment because of ongoing federal litigation over Florida’s law prohibiting politically motivated questioning by doctors looking to advance organized medicine’s gun prohibition agenda. DRGO has been intimately involved in this firearm civil rights matter for years.

Luthra and I got off to an awkward start when she couldn’t assure me that DRGO would be credited by name …Read the Rest

Source:: AmmoLand