Comments on: Press not likely to fall for latest anti-vaccine ruse

By: David N. Brown

David N. Brown — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 08:42:20 +0000

I have a new article on Olmstead and Blaxill’s original story up on evilpossum.weebly. A conclusion I’ve drawn is that these authors probably knowingly omitted the fact that all three Rotateq inventors were CHOP employees.
As far as the history of the article, I was always aware that NAA was taking “credit” for it. But, I’ve seen it argued that it was given to them by Thoughtful House.

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By: Sullivan

Sullivan — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 17:49:51 +0000

When I contacted the NAA to request their source for the figures, Jim Moody directed me to Handley’s Offit smear site, and to the AoA article on Offit.

Talk about circular reasoning.

If reasoning can be applied here.

By: Sullivan

Sullivan — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 17:01:19 +0000

David: It was not a Reuters story.

That was obvious, even to the readers of the Age of Autism blog. Which begs the question-why did they run their piece with “Reuters Reports” as the title?

David N. Brown didn’t say that it was a story. But, since Reuters picked it up and since people are making it seem like that gives the press release credibility as a “story”, I would be think it appropriate for Reuters to pull it.

By: Squillo

Squillo — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 15:40:31 +0000

When I contacted the NAA to request their source for the figures, Jim Moody directed me to Handley’s Offit smear site, and to the AoA article on Offit.

By: Peter Arnold

Peter Arnold — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 08:19:34 +0000

David: It was not a Reuters story. They merely repost press releases frm PR Newswire. If you check you will find countless such press releases posted every day. Lots of other sites do the same.

This is the benefit of paying for press releases to be issued by PR Newswire.

By: David N. Brown

David N. Brown — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 01:13:42 +0000

A possible new development: The Reuters link to the press release still works, but I don’t see the story when I enter “Offit” as a search term. Could this mean Reuters is deleting the article?
If so, it’s not enough. I call on everyone to keep up pressure on Reuters until they issue an open correction.

By: Sullivan

Sullivan — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 23:35:47 +0000

I think Dr. Offit says it best– he is not their enemy, the data are their enemy.

It isn’t like they don’t fight data too–the “fourteen studies dot com” website is a great example of attacks on science.