Re:How does one appear in the Google News carousel?
by pessimizer on Friday February 08, 2019 @08:53AM
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> one of the achievements of "fake news" in the broad sense has been eroding people's belief in vaccination.
That's an unusual way to describe The Lancet, who are responsible for inflicting Wakefield's bullshit on the world, and taking an eternity to retract it.
Re:How does one appear in the Google News carousel?
by Angostura on Friday February 08, 2019 @09:03AM
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Once the facts were known, the Lancet retracted and was contrite. That's a cock-up and apology, not fake news. Fake news would be the news outlets that continued to promulgate the idea.
That's an unusual way to describe The Lancet, who are responsible for inflicting Wakefield's bullshit on the world, and taking an eternity to retract it.