The Observer – How long will it take to get a correction and apology?
I have now added a counter to the front page of the Quackometer to show how many weeks it has been since the Observer has failed to print a proper correction of its glaring errors about MMR and autism and to offer an apology for misleading its readers.
Others have fully documented and made available to all the problems with the article about MMR by Denis Campbell. The Observer web site version of the story has been removed – it looks like it may contain a legal problem. But this story was so bad it needs a full print correction and apology.
Follow the story here:
Bad Science
http://www.badscience.net/?cat=21
HolfordWatch
http://holfordwatch.info/tag/mmr/
BreathSpa
http://breathspakids.blogspot.com/search/label/MMR
Quackometer
http://www.quackometer.net/blog/labels/MMR.html
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Related posts:
- The Observer – Confused by Health Advice Denis Campbell, the sports journalist, who raked up MMR fears in the Observer and got it all horribly wrong, is now back on the health theme debunking various health fears...
- Absence of Evidence The absence of the Bad Science column in yesterday’s Guardian has all the makings of a bigger story than had there actually been a column. Ben Goldacre, writer of the...
- Chinese Whispers – MMR and the Press Just a few days before Andrew Wakefield appears before the GMC disciplinary body on charges of misconduct, a front page article in the Observer makes fresh claims of links between...
- On the Muppet Show Tonight… In his Guardian article, Ben Goldacre wrote about how homeopaths respond to criticism: With alternative therapists, when you point out a problem with the evidence, people don’t engage with you...
- Unanswered Questions Just in case you were wondering, here is the letter I wrote to the Society of Homeopaths, asking them just why they were so upset about me. This letter was...
So we should keep writing the letters of complaint, then?
“Dear Sir,
I seem to have missed your apology for (and correction of) the recent MMR story by Denis Campbell. Please can you indicate when this article will appear on your front page as I would be loath to miss it?”