Daily Archives: May 25, 2010

The Madness of Melanie Phillips

May 25, 2010 – 11:25 pm

Tweet So, Dr Andrew Wakefield is now just plain old Andrew Wakefield after being struck off for – in the words of the Telegraph’s Tom Chivers: [being] one of the principal authors of perhaps the stupidest and most unnecessary health scare of recent Western history… [and] for being “dishonest”, “misleading” and “irresponsible” in his research [...]

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The PCC Idea of ‘Resolved Complaints’

May 25, 2010 – 6:33 pm

Tweet Looking through the Press Complaints Commission’s recently resolved complaints you become aware of just how unsatisfactory such resolutions often are for the complainant. The PCC and editors seem to think it is enough to merely remove offending articles, rather than actually attempt to offer any kind of redress or explanation. Take the example of [...]

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