the New England Journal of Medicine has a voided politics for 208 years

[procon]

the New England Journal of Medicine has a voided politics for 208 years. Now it's urging voters to oust Trump.

October 8, 2020 at 4:54 AM EDT
In more than two centuries of publishing, the New England Journal of Medicine has never weighed in on a U.S. presidential election. That changed this week.

On Wednesday, alongside its usual peer-reviewed scientific studies and analysis, the journal published a blistering editorial taking President Trump and his administration to task over their handling of the coronavirus pandemic. The respected journal broke the nonpartisan position it has held since 1812 with an editorial titled, “Dying in a Leadership Vacuum,” which urged voters to oust Trump over his administration’s failures.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/10/08/science-journal-endorsement-trump/


The referenced New England Journal of Medicine editorial is here:

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMe2029812

[empedocles]

1. Important context

[DonaldsRump]

2. This is a remarkable event

I think that NEJM, along with The Lancet and JAMA (Journal of the American Medical Association), are some of the most revered medical journals in the world.

It is sad, but necessary that NEJM did this. None of this had to happen in the hands of a real leader. Instead, Trump and Pence have made this incalculably worse.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

3. Any chance you mean avoided?

A voided is a completely different thing.