Special Report - Online activists are silencing us, scientists say Reuters March 2019

Dolphin said:
This update just came up in a Google alert, I have. It looks like the article may get another round of coverage. :(
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I have no idea if it was linked there before , but now, dated April 18th and headed with the addendum "(Adds David Tuller's academic position at Berkeley)," a link to it has been posted as if it were new at "The Drudge Report."

http://news.trust.org/item/20190418094429-rl1l2


ETA: It looks like it may have been part of a "theme" of links about "silencing," as it appears in this order:

"Hatred of journalists turning to violence, watchdog warns."

"Americas saw greatest deterioration of press freedom."

"Online activists silencing us, scientists say"
 
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Trial By Error: A Reuters Update
Last Sunday, I sent a letter expressing my concerns about Kate Kelland’s recent article to the appropriate person–the Reuters global editor for ethics and standards. After considering the issues, Reuters has decided to add my current academic title to the post and leave everything else as is. I appreciate the first decision and obviously disagree strongly with the second.

I note that the story still refers to me, for some reason, as a “former journalist.” This is false. I am both a currently working journalist and a public health investigator. For some reason, Reuters has determined it is impossible to be both.

I might have more to say about this going forward. For now, I’m posting the letter I sent. (In the actual e-mail, I linked to everything; I didn’t bother to do that here.)
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http://www.virology.ws/2019/04/18/trial-by-error-a-reuters-update/
 
About six or seven hours after it was linked on The Drudge Report, the Reuters story was removed (unlinked). Interestingly the two seemingly related "silencing" stories remain.
"Hatred of journalists turning to violence, watchdog warns."

"Americas saw greatest deterioration of press freedom."
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All the links on that site are ephemeral; it's just interesting that the Reuters story was removed relatively quickly and was replaced by a story about... Clint Eastwood.
 
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Trish said:
Don't think I'm quite awake yet. Can you clarify. Has the report about Sharpe, Tuller etc been removed? And what is the Drudge report?
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I probably should have said that the link to the Reuters story was removed. "The Drudge Report" is, for the most part, an aggregation of links to news stories at other sites. It is U.S. centric, but covers global stories as well. To quote Wikipedia...
The Drudge Report is a politically right-leaning news aggregator website. Run by Matt Drudge with the help of Charles Hurt, the site consists mainly of links to news stories from other outlets about politics, entertainment, and current events; it also has links to many columnists. Occasionally, Drudge authors news stories himself, based on tips.
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According to Quantcast, the site has more than three million page visits per day. According to Mark Halperin, "Drudge's coverage affects the media's political coverage", effectively steering the media's political coverage towards what Halperin calls "the most salacious aspects of American politics". In The Way To Win, a book written by Halperin and John Harris, Drudge is called "the Walter Chronkite of his era". Democratic Party strategist Chris Lehane says "phones start ringing" whenever Drudge breaks a story, and Mark McKinnon, a former media advisor to George W. Bush, said that he checked the site 30–40 times per day.
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Despite its rightward tilt and tendency toward sensationalism, it is widely "read" (there's not much to read on the site itself) among the political class because it aggregates breaking political stories and it has an out-sized influence based upon which stories it links to.

This is why I posted about it linking to the "updated":whistle: Reuters story, i.e. because it is widely "read," even though a good portion of its readers won't admit to doing so.
 
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Could this be a blessing in disguise?. Can people respond in comments to new York Times. David Tuller gets a chance to get into the main media . If a few people in high places were to respond it might make an impression on some of the journalists in the UK and go someway to discredit the article, its author and the bad science with it. There might well be an opportunity somewhere in here. I've no doubt that better minds than mine will find it if it is there. This is one to think carefully about.
 
There never was any intention to investigate or understand. It was about collecting bits to support the narrative of irrational death-threat making patients while stubbornly ignoring any information that contradicts it. Much like PACE was never about testing the treatments, but about convincing the world that CBT/GET work.
 
This whole tactic of accusing "campaigners" of "silencing" scientists reminded me of this photo... (quote mine).


"My friends, I tell you I am being SILENCED!!!"

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[This is Douglas Fairbanks Sr. at a 1918 war bond rally in New York City.]
 
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TiredSam said:
Claire Fox, the tweeter from earlier in this thread:



I have never heard an English teacher say more "y'know"s, "Kind of"s, "like"s and other irritating and unnecessary fillers. Worse than any student I've ever had.

Espousing her interesting views on generation snowflake.
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Hey @TiredSam , not cool. I'm a guy who likes some irony, sure, a little nibble here, a small morsel there. I was, you know, going to try to find a bit to snack on this weekend in a nice, measured manner - probably over several prudent courses - because, as they say, everything in moderation.

But no, you come here, post this, and blast the irony firehose directly into my face, and now I'm so overfull I don't think I'll ever enjoy irony again. Even sarcasm seems unpalatable.

I feel empty. I feel hurt. I feel harmed and oppressed.

You ruined my weekend, bro.
 
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