One would think that medical firearm researchers would be intensely interested in this scholarship. But so far the editorial boards of the journals of the AAP, AMA, and ACP have neither responded to nor acknowledged it. With their silence these editors have effectively ended whatever credibility they had in firearm research. That field of study is apparently useful to them only as a vehicle for the advancement of their political goal of gun prohibition. Such conduct is inexcusable in any area of scientific endeavor.
Honest scientists face conflicting data objectively.
And honest doctors do not use biased research to give false authority to their negative feelings about guns. Moral judgments about the right to self defense, hunting, or other legitimate uses of guns are not acceptable subjects for a doctor talking to a patient. Congress cut off all the CDC's 1997 funding for gun research because of the CDC's anti-gun bias. No doctor who knows firearms would base her advice on this frankly political literature. Unlike the AAP's Stop program, Eddie Eagle educational materials for children contain no political or moral judgment about guns.