Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS.
Curr Oncol. 2012 Jun;19(3):133-8. doi: 10.3747/co.19.1063.
To review the empirical claims made in: Pereira J. Legalizing euthanasia or assisted suicide: the illusion of safeguards and controls. Curr Oncol 2011;18:e38-45.
We collected all of the empirical claims made by Jose Pereira in "Legalizing euthanasia or assisted suicide: the illusion of safeguards and controls." We then collected all reference sources provided for those claims. We compared the claims with the sources (where sources were provided) and evaluated the level of support, if any, the sources provide for the claims. We also reviewed other available literature to assess the veracity of the empirical claims made in the paper. We then wrote the present paper using examples from the review.
Pereira makes a number of factual statements without providing any sources. Pereira also makes a number of factual statements with sources, where the sources do not, in fact, provide support for the statements he made. Pereira also makes a number of false statements about the law and practice in jurisdictions that have legalized euthanasia or assisted suicide.
Pereira's conclusions are not supported by the evidence he provided. His paper should not be given any credence in the public policy debate about the legal status of assisted suicide and euthanasia in Canada and around the world.
审查佩雷拉（J. Pereira）在《使安乐死或协助自杀合法化：安全措施和控制的幻觉》（Legalizing euthanasia or assisted suicide: the illusion of safeguards and controls）一文中提出的经验主张。
我们收集了何塞·佩雷拉（Jose Pereira）在“使安乐死或协助自杀合法化：安全措施和控制的幻觉”一文中提出的所有经验主张，并收集了为这些主张提供的所有参考资料。然后，我们将这些主张与来源（如果提供了来源）进行了比较，并评估了来源对主张的支持程度（如果有的话）。我们还查阅了其他可用文献，以评估该文中提出的经验主张的真实性。然后，我们使用审查中的示例编写了本论文。
佩雷拉在没有提供任何来源的情况下提出了一些事实陈述。佩雷拉还在有来源的情况下提出了一些事实陈述，但这些来源实际上并没有为他所做的陈述提供支持。佩雷拉还对已经使安乐死或协助自杀合法化的司法管辖区的法律和实践提出了一些错误陈述。
佩雷拉的结论没有得到他提供的证据的支持。在加拿大和世界各地有关协助自杀和安乐死合法地位的公共政策辩论中，不应给予他的论文任何可信度。
