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Shooting the Messenger

online reporting by INDependent journalist Dean Sterling Jones

Month: September 2016

  • A Big Fat Critique

    Author/journalist Nina Teicholz’s critique of Retraction Watch’s reporting re: failed attempt by DC special interest group to retract her BMJ article Via “BMJ won’t retract controversial dietary guidelines article, says author” by editor Alison McCook, Retraction Watch, September 23, 2016: The BMJ is not going to retract a 2015 article criticizing the expert report underlying…

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  • Where’s the Beef?

    Politico reports that the BMJ will not retract “controversial” dietary guidelines article by Nina Teicholz, author of New York Times best-seller, The Big Fat Surprise Via Politico’s Morning Agriculture (MA) blog, Teicholz said she was notified of the journal’s decision after it conducted a months-long review: A controversial article questioning the science behind the U.S. Dietary Guidelines that…

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  • Unblurred Lines

    The Independent publishes my corrections request re: Crown Prosecution Service’s skewed statistics on rape convictions Last week, I blogged about the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) having exaggerated the 2015-16 rape conviction rate. Via a press release, the CPS claimed that it was “convicting more cases of rape…than ever before,” with “a rise in the rape conviction rate…

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  • Blurred Lines

    UK prosecution service fudges the statistics on rape Earlier this month, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) released its annual Violence Against Women and Girls crime report.¹ Via a press release, the CPS claimed that it was “convicting more cases of rape…than ever before,” with “a rise in the rape conviction rate [from 56.9] to 57.9 per…

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  • The Death of Itziar Orube

    Leading “Germanic New Medicine” proponent Itziar Orube has reportedly died Earlier this year I blogged about the notorious Ryke Geerd Hamer, a German physician who lost his medical licence in 1986 after a number of patients in his care died. Now come reports of another Hamer-related death. Itziar Orube, a leading proponent of Hamer’s widely discredited theory…

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  • The Bitch is Back

    Carter-Ruck Lawyers passes the baton to Schillings partners in Elton John three-way tabloid scandal, but where does that leave Internet users threatened with legal action? The juiciest celebrity news story of 2016 went unreported in the UK thanks to strong-arm legal tactics by David Furnish, husband of pop singer Elton John. As you didn’t read in the newspapers,…

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