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Today, Chuck talks with Lesley Pacey, Senior Environmental Officer at the Government Accountability Project, about the Norfolk Southern disaster that occurred three years ago this month in East Palestine, Ohio, and how the people impacted have been failed by their government.
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Government Accountability Project
Statement of Retraction
Government Accountability Project and the co-authors Tom Devine, Samantha Feinstein and John Kolar (hereafter “the retractors”) of Chapter 15 of the book entitled, “The Routledge Handbook of Public Procurement Corruption,” published in April 2024, hereby retracts the “Case Study of Nurse Wooten” in its entirety and all of its content that may appear elsewhere in said publication or reviews and promotions thereof concerning Dr. Mahendra Amin. By this retraction, the retractors intend to fully and completely make the retractions he has demanded through his attorneys. After further review of all available press reports, information and judicial opinions, and upon his written demand, the retractors apologize to Dr. Mahendra Amin and state that they should not have relied upon and cannot now rely upon derogatory materials that the retractors cited, quoted or otherwise stated in the publications named in said written demand. The retractors retract without qualification all statements made by them that were critical of Dr. Mahendra Amin, including statements that he committed medical neglect, performed unnecessary gynecological procedures or mass hysterectomies on women detained at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility at Irwin County Detention Center in Georgia, and including any inferences that he was a “uterus collector”, as well as any and all other statements that impugned his professional conduct or character. The retractors will not promote or republish any such information on its website or in any of its printed materials and have removed therefrom the statements subject to the written retraction demand. The retractors will request that the publisher, Taylor & Francis, Inc., post unconditional retractions in all known written and electronically published material made or repeated by the retractors.
