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    Michael Hiltzik: Two key antiabortion studies have been retracted as junk science. Will the Supreme Court care?

    If the effort to ban medication abortion now before the Supreme Court demonstrates anything, it's that the damage caused in our society by junk science can be disastrous indeed. That's the implication of the retraction of two scientific studies, announced Monday by the journal publisher Sage. The studies provided the purported rationale for a Texas federal judge's ruling overturning the ...
    by Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times Feb 09, 2024 5 minutes
    The U.S. Supreme Court building as seen on Sunday, July 11, 2021, in Washington, D.C.

    If the effort to ban medication abortion now before the Supreme Court demonstrates anything, it's that the damage caused in our society by junk science can be disastrous indeed.

    That's the implication of the retraction of two scientific studies, announced Monday by the journal publisher Sage. The studies provided the purported rationale for a Texas federal judge's ruling overturning the approval of the abortion drugs by the Food and Drug Administration.

    It's impossible to overstate the potential ramifications of the ruling issued April 7 by federal Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk of Amarillo, Texas, which invalidated FDA approvals of the drug mifepristone dating back to 2000.

    Kacsmaryk's ruling was the basis for an on Aug. 19, which narrowed his ruling somewhat but not entirely. The Supreme Court has scheduled

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