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18. In their respective fields, Andrew Wakefield or Arpad Pusztai come to mind. Take it to the bank.

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http://www.ageofautism.com/2014/02/cnn-runs-scared-from-the-truth-about-andrew-wakefield.html

CNN Runs Scared from the Truth about Andrew Wakefield
By John Stone

An incident on a CNN blog on Friday morning revealed how sensitive the news channel could be about arguing with the official dogma surrounding Andrew Wakefield. When the present writer – posting at breakfast UK time and the middle of the night Eastern - contested the fraud allegations repeated in an op ed piece by Frank Y. Wong, an associate professor at the Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University the news channel responded with blocking tactics. Pointing to the exoneration of Wakefield’s senior colleague and author, Prof John Walker-Smith, in the British high court two years ago, I was immediately countered by a poster called “Tony” quoting paragraphs from the Wiki entry on Andrew Wakefield. I then found that my next response went straight into moderation never to see the light of day and a similar comment forwarded to me by an acquaintance was also blocked by the same method. The page now reveals that no less than nine responses to “Tony” were deleted (presumably all before publication).

The Wiki entry on Andrew Wakefield has a pharmaceutical Praetorian guard surrounding it preventing it from ever being corrected, and plainly CNN realised that they were on to a loser if this discussion continued. My deleted comment read: HIGHLY ACCURATE AND ARCANE/TECHNICAL.

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So Wiki does not tell you any of this but repeats an account that is long disproven.

And shamefully CNN are hiding behind it.

John Stone is UK Editor for Age of Autism.

Posted by Age of Autism on February 10, 201 at 5:46 AM
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