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Salon Sanitizes the Record

By Jonathan H. Adler

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(Jonathan H. Adler)

Salon has withdrawn a 2005 article by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (aka ?America?s Most Irresponsible Public Figure®?) alleging a link between vaccines and autism.  The article, co-published with Rolling Stone, had an ?explosive premise,? according to Salon?s editors.  Too bad it was scientifically bogus and completely irresponsible.  Salon was forced to publish several corrections to the article, but has now decided to remove it from their website altogether.  A better step would have been to leave it online with a bolded header explaining the article has been thoroughly discredited and never should have been published in the first place.


Full post as published by The Volokh Conspiracy on January 17, 2011 (boomark / email).

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