On Mon, 21 Sep 2009, national journal was quoted:
> <http://www.nationaljournal.com/njonline/mp_20090918_4062.php>
>
> MYSTERY POLLSTER
> A Tale Of Two Doctor Polls
> Pollsters Who Don't Disclose Their Methods Render Their Results Suspect
>
> by Mark Blumenthal
> Monday, Sept. 21, 2009
>
> Last week saw the release of two new surveys of doctors with very different
> results. The first, funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and
> published in the New England Journal of Medicine, found a large majority (73
> percent) favoring some form of a "public option" health care plan "like
> Medicare," either alone or in combination with private plans. Another,
> conducted by Investor's Business Daily and the TechnoMetrica Institute of
> Policy & Politics found almost as many (65 percent) expressing opposition to
> a "proposed government expansion [health care] plan."
<snip>
> The Investor's Business Daily article reports nothing at all about their
> response rate or the characteristics of the physicians it surveyed....
> The IBD article fails to disclose some of the basic elements of their
> survey's methods and, as of publication time, neither IBD nor TIPP has
> responded to my requests for more information.
Investor's Business Daily is the same rag that claimed that Stephen Hawkings would have been euthanized if he'd grown up in the UK. They're clearly beyond the pale of serious consideration on this issue -- there's no limit to how low they'll stoop in making things up.
Michale