To the Editor: In regard to your editorial (Sept. 21 issue)1on the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (NCIPC),no one disputes the need to perform research with a valid purposesuch as identifying ways of improving public health, but whenthere is such a bias in the work and the statistical informationis so flawed as to be obvious to anyone with any reasoning ability,then the research has no value and should neither receive publicfunding nor be reported in respected medical journals such asthe New England Journal of Medicine. Vicious attacks on groupsthat . . . [Full Text of this Article]