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A comment on One More Time, with Big Data: Measles Vaccine Doesn’t Cause Autism. Parent comment

Re:One More Time, with Big Data: Measles Vaccine Doesn’t Cau... by masonic on Wednesday March 06, 2019 @12:02AM (#19316505) 

  This is the first google result I found when searching
In other words, Google is perfectly willing to sell top billing in that search result to presumably the highest bidder.
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Re:One More Time, with Big Data: Measles Vaccine Doesn’t Cau... by headcanon on Wednesday March 06, 2019 @10:42AM (#19319680)
It wasn't a sponsored result, so its more likely that the site in question puts a lot of effort into SEO. It is also part of Jenny McCarthy's organization which may lend it higher search significance. Reasonable people can definitely disagree on Google's role in policing such misinformation.
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