How rightwing groups used junk science to get an abortion case before the US supreme court

Anti-abortion researchers exaggerate' and obfuscate' in their scientific papers - but by the time they're published, it's too late

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A pharmacy professor who strenuously avoids heated political discussions is an unlikely candidate to get involved in a fight over abortion, particularly one as high stakes as a case now before the supreme court: the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) v the Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine (AHM).

But when the professor Chris Adkins of South University in Georgia emailed his concerns about an academic article to the editors of Health Services Research and Managerial Epidemiology, that's exactly what happened.