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online reporting by INDependent journalist Dean Sterling Jones

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  • WordPress Yields to Erdoğan

    WordPress updates its takedown policy to reflect that it now complies with Turkish censorship demands – four months after I blogged the story Last year, I reported about a Turkish political blog that was geo-blocked by WordPress following a takedown request from tyrannical Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. In a series of tweets, the Turkish journalist and noted…

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  • The Art of the Steal

    Did Trump plagiarise from “fake news” network CNN and other media networks on defunct Trump University blog? Since taking office in January, the Trump administration has repeatedly accused US cable network CNN of reporting “fake news.” However, it appears that in 2008 Trump plagiarised articles originally published to the CNN website on his now-defunct Trump University blog, a weekly column in which Trump gave…

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  • The Sun Corrects False Assange Claim, Inflames WikiLeaks

    WikiLeaks Task Force cries “fake news” after The Sun falsely claims that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange allegedly sexually assaulted two men Earlier this month, The Sun newspaper published “Who is Julian Assange, why does Pamela Anderson visit him in the Ecuadorian embassy and what is Wikileaks?” about exiled Aussie journalist and founder of WikiLeaks Julian Assange,…

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  • Blasphemy @ the BBC

    The BBC issues lengthy apology for “disgraceful” tweet which asked what the “right punishment for blasphemy” should be Last week, the BBC Asian Network – which hosts the lively Big Debate radio programme – asked Twitter users to say what they thought was the “right punishment for blasphemy.” source Maryam Namazie, a prominent ex-Muslim and civil rights campaigner, called the question “disgraceful,” and…

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  • Hate Mail Volume 1: Alt-Med Madness

    Homeopaths are mad at BuzzFeed for article about “pseudo-scientific events” being held at a prestigious London university + Read the angry e-mails I received from a proponent of criminal doctor Ryke Geerd Hamer’s discredited theory of disease Last week, BuzzFeed UK published a superb article based partly on my investigation of the International Meta-Medicine Association (IMMA), a…

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  • Creating a Buzz

    “There’s no excuse for blurring the boundaries between rigorously researched scientific work and pseudoscientific claims about unproven quack cures.” Read BuzzFeed UK’s superb article based partly on my investigation of freaky US alt-med organisation For the past year I’ve written extensively about the International Meta-Medicine Association (IMMA), a US integrative medicine organisation that teaches the widely…

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  • Abbey Road

    A mysterious place where the rules of the road don’t apply During our recent trip to London, my girlfriend and I paid a visit to Abbey Road Studios, where The Beatles made many of their best recordings. Just outside the studios is the crossing immortalised on the Abbey Road album cover. There we watched Beatles fans line…

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  • The Year in Blog – 2016 Edition

    Although 2016 was by most accounts the worst year in living memory, for me it was also a lot of fun. There were yuge cultural and political upsets – right (or should I say “alt-right”?) – but there were also a couple of inspiring victories for the good guys. Across the pond, my Atlanta, GA blogging buddy, independent investigative…

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  • Katz Against the Wall

    “A closed mouth collects no feet” – Columnist/nutrition expert Dr. David L. Katz criticised for political articles Last month, I blogged about “The Clear and Present Menace of SciLence,” a politically charged opinion piece by Huffington Post columnist/nutrition expert Dr. David L. Katz, founding director of the CDC-funded Yale-Griffin Prevention Research Center. Dr. Katz’s January 27, 2017 article (source) In…

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  • Preaching to the Press

    Is the British press unintentionally aiding efforts to implement state-backed press regulation? Last October, IMPRESS became the first Royal Charter-backed press regulator in Britain after its application was approved by the Press Recognition Panel (PRP), the government-funded body set up in the wake of the 2012 Leveson Report to oversee press regulation. The decision to approve IMPRESS has…

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