Tag Archives: Guardian
UPDATED: Snoos.ws, ICUC Moderation, Neal’s Yard and User Generated Content: Epic Fail
It behoves people whose business is social media to set a good example by getting the story right and responding to comments in a timely manner. Continue reading
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Comment Is Free But Facts Are Sacred Makes A Correction
Kent Miller’s post for the Guardian’s Comment Is Free contained the common error that MMR vaccine contains thimerosal. Acting more speedily than they have previously when such errors have been brought to their attention, Guardian corrected it. Continue reading
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More Dore media coverage: Bad Science and the Sun
A quick post to note some more of the unfolding coverage of Dore UK’s closures. Ben Goldacre uses his Guardian bad science column to point out that, when analysing the coverage of Dore: it seems the bloggers win on timeliness, … Continue reading
Filed under autism, Ben Goldacre, Dore, dyslexia, dyspraxia
1 in 58 Have Autism Redux: I Blame The Observer
Jenny McCarthy has an Op-Ed piece on CNN. She repeats the canard that 1 in 58 children in England and Ireland have a condition on the autism spectrum disorder. The Observer is responsible for this untrue figure. Despite corrections from Professor Simon Baron-Cohen who leads the team that is supposed to have uncovered that figure, the Observer has never fully retracted that story. And so, we have nonsense like this canard that flourishes unchecked. Continue reading
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