The Lancet has been a prestigious British medical journal for 150 years, at least until recently. It began to falter with the bogus study associating childhood vaccines with autism. That study was eventually shown to be fraudulant and funded by lawyers. More recently, it has gotten itself heavily involved with the politics of the Iraq War. Now, its major study of Iraqi casualties has been exposed as a fraud. The political left has been complaining that the cause of science is harmed by religious conservatives who do not accept evolution or who oppose stem cell research. It now appears that the fundamentalists were amateurs in the business of politicizing science.
And we haven’t even gotten to the subject of global warming.
Little Green Footballs has accumulated a list of links to stories debunking the Lancet story.