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online reporting by INDependent journalist Dean Sterling Jones

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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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  • WikiLeaks Goes “Full Trump”

    WikiLeaks claims it invented popular whistle-blower program SecureDrop and that Julian Assange co-founded the Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF) – claims denied by FPF co-founder Micah Lee in heated exchange with the WikiLeaks Task Force Last week, WikiLeaks tweeted that the Associated Press and other press organisations had adopted “WikiLeaks technology” in adopting SecureDrop, a whistle-blower…

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  • Preventing Prevent 2.0

    Does Trump plan to implement a US version of highly controversial British counter-extremism strategy? Via “Exclusive: Trump to focus counter-extremism program solely on Islam – sources” by Julia Edwards Ainsley, Dustin Volz and Kristina Cooke, Reuters, February 2, 2017: The Trump administration wants to revamp and rename a U.S. government program designed to counter all violent…

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  • Info-Warring

    Leading U.S. conspiracy news website InfoWars accused of stealing content According to multiple DMCA complaints that were sent to Google, InfoWars didn’t seek permission before republishing articles that originally featured on pro-gun news website AmmoLand and Danish-run news website nsnbc international. AmmoLand editor Fredy Riehl claims that InfoWars duplicated, in full, his July 11, 2015 interview with Donald…

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  • State-Backed Regulation: A Pressing Issue

    British journalism magazine the Press Gazette publishes article based on my blog post re: Magazine publisher’s claim the Daily Telegraph falsely reported about his criminal past in order to undermine state-approved press regulator The Press Gazette’s January 27, 2016 article (source) Earlier this week, I blogged about Steve McNought, co-director of Bristol-based magazine publisher Arkbound, who suggested he was…

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