The Daily Mail
Truly the home of hypocrisy is the Dail Mail.

On todays front page header "Why are women today so angry?"

Turn to the section mentioned and the headline is "Know your frenemy- Is your best friend really an emeny in disguise? Amanda Platell reveals how to spot the danger signs- before that scheming bosom buddy stabbs you in the back"

scans here www.angrymob.uponnothing.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=43&Itemid=1

Also see "MMR is evil and will poison your kids" followed by "OMG measles is on the increase because irresponsible parents arent immunising their kids"

and Richard Littlejohn complaining about "bloody immigrants" when he lives (and scrawls from)America most of the year.

etc etc etc
(purple_gromit, Wed 25 Feb 2009, 0:43, 6 replies)

I don't know much about medical science and vaccination...
...but I do know smear jobs when I see them.

Maybe Andrew Wakefield is completely bonkers, and MMR is safe and there is no risk of any complications from the vaccine.

Maybe Andrew Wakefield is onto something, and there is something amiss with the MMR vaccine which warrants further study.

I don't know the scientific merits of the case.

However, I do know the vilification that Wakefield got in the media, which naturally leads one to wonder just who was behind it, and with what motives.

If Wakefield was a completely off-the-wall fruitcake, and his ideas about MMR and autism had no basis in proper science, why was such a smear job carried out against him? Why wasn't he just ignored as a loony and left alone to moulder in obscurity?
( flake has nothing against your right leg, Wed 25 Feb 2009, 0:50, closed)

The scientific paper
which Wakefield wrote should never have been published according to one of my lecturers. She told us that anyone with a knowledge of science would have been able to pick apart his research methods. Journalists with no knowledge of such matters took the paper at face value and ran with it.

It is also claimed that he was asked to find a link by a group of people who believed the MMR vaccine caused the autism in their children. So he wasn't being objective.
(ToysForBigBoys would spread her legs for Nick Clegg., Wed 25 Feb 2009, 9:59, closed)

Also, he lied.
It turned out recently that a lot of the already rather poor data that all this scare was based on was falsified. And yeah, IIRC he was hired to *find* a link by a group who were going to court over it.
(julius, Wed 25 Feb 2009, 10:14, closed)

Richard Littlejohn complaining about "bloody immigrants" when he lives ... in America.
There are plenty of immigrants over here for him to complain about. There are more foreign-born in the US than the entire population of Canada.
(uncle_bud is not the jelly roll king., Wed 25 Feb 2009, 3:01, closed)

I think the point was that littlejohn himself is an immigrant

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 25 Feb 2009, 9:32, closed)

More Daily Mail
The BBC are bastards for not sacking that nasty Jonathan Ross for his involvement in saying certain things (which were true) about Manuel's grand daughter.

a few weeks later:

The BBC are bastards for sacking that nice Carol Thatcher for telling racist jokes.

Nice to see they wont miss any opportunity to have a go at their biggest rival (remembering the Daily Mail group has interests in TV News with ITN and in commercial radio with Classic FM, which they generally dont like reminding readers is a large driving force behind their anti BBC agenda.)
(Nayson, Wed 25 Feb 2009, 16:50, closed)