George D. Lundberg

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George D. Lundberg is a physician, board-certified pathologist, and, since February 1999, editor of Medscape . For 17 years prior to joining Medscape Dr. Lundberg served as editor of the JAMA.

One month before joining Medscape Lundberg was dramatically fired from JAMA by E. Ratcliffe Anderson, who was then executive vice president of the AMA over a research study report from the Kinsey Institute that Lundberg had selected for publication. The JAMA article reported, among other things, that 60% of college students surveyed in 1991 considered "oral sex" as not "having sex," which Anderson said was "inappropriately and inexcusably" timed to influence the debate over the Impeachment of Bill Clinton and "to extract political leverage." Lundberg subsequently successfully sued the AMA and was awarded an undisclosed settlement.

References

• The JAMA Controversy and the Meaning of Sex. Tom W. Smith, The Public Opinion Quarterly, Vol. 63, No. 3 (Autumn, 1999), pp. 385-400

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