Original sentence: Following a September 2007 McCaughey Wall Street Journal op-ed column attacking the American Cancer Society's Access to Care initiative, libertarian economist John Goodman, co-founder and president of the conservative National Center for Policy Analysis (NCPA), asked McCaughey to expand her op-ed into a NCPA Brief Analysis giving her calculations of cancer "survival rates" from a NBER Working Paper by Republican free-market economist June O'Neill and McCaughey's analysis of a Lancet Oncology article comparing estimated five-year relative survival rates for sixteen types of cancer in parts of Europe and the United States.In October 2007, Republican presidential front-runner Rudy Giuliani's health care advisor, Canadian psychiatrist and Manhattan Institute senior fellow David Gratzer—identified as the source of false and misleading cancer "survival rates" repeated by Giuliani for three months and then in a radio ad attacking Democratic health care reform proposals as "socialized medicine"—cited the NCPA's Goodman and McCaughey's NCPA Brief Analysis as other "experts" using his method of calculating "survival rates" from cancer mortality and incidence statistics.The Washington Post and FactCheck.org consulted cancer experts and statisticians who found no merit in Gratzer's claims and called calculations such as those by Goodman, Gratzer, O'Neill, and McCaughey "complete nonsense" and "a very dangerous thing to do" for which "you would get an F in epidemiology
Edited sentence: Following a September 2007 McCaughey Wall Street Journal op-ed column attacking the American Cancer Society's Access to Care initiative, economist John Goodman, co-founder and president of the National Center for Policy Analysis (NCPA), asked McCaughey to expand her op-ed into a NCPA Brief Analysis giving her calculations of cancer "survival rates" from a NBER Working Paper by Republican economist June O'Neill and McCaughey's analysis of a Lancet Oncology article comparing estimated five-year relative survival rates for sixteen types of cancer in parts of Europe and the United States