I need to express my abject disdain for Canadian Family Physician’s February cover image. Please tell me how a woman’s naked body, her genitalia obscured by only a bouquet of wheat, is in any way related to celiac disease? I understand the inclusion of wheat in the photograph but I am completely mystified as to the meaning or purpose of the naked women holding it. The only answer that I am able to reasonably construe is that the people who are responsible for the cover page simply gave virtually no thought to the graphic that would represent the featured article of February’s issue; in other words, plain old laziness. Any other reason would be inane and perhaps even offensive. This sort of indiscretion is forgivable, but the intellectual rigour and effort poured into producing this periodical is undercut by a silly, superfluous picture of a nearly naked women. The journal’s prestige no doubt suffers greatly from such a lack of thoughtfulness.
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