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Blue Wode · 20th August 2008, 12:30 AM

Originally Posted by godless dave

Has the Guardian said anything about why they pulled the article? Or do they routinely pull "Comment is Free" articles after a certain time frame? Their regular news articles seem to be archived back to the beginning of the web (and you can read them for free!).

I wrote to the Guardian at the beginning of July asking why the article had gone missing, but they didn’t reply. As far as I know, they don’t routinely pull CiF articles - indeed, I suspect that this might be the first time that they have done so.

Also, it’s worth remembering that this isn’t the first time that the British Chiropractic Association has managed to silence a mainstream newspaper. At the end of last year it managed to have an article ('Chiropractors are a waste of money') deleted from the Daily Telegraph’s website. See page 7 here:
http://www.gcc-uk.org/files/page_fil..._GCCNews23.pdf

In addition to that, the UK regulatory body, the General Chiropractic Council (GCC), has a habit of firing off emotive letters to newspaper editors whenever any criticism of chiropractic appears in the press. See here:
http://www.skeptics.org.uk/forum/sho...05&postcount=3

Suffice to say that the GCC’s behavior seems to be not too far removed from that of the British and New Zealand chiropractic associations - something which blogger Dougal Stanton so aptly describes here:

Quote:

It should be pretty obvious now that these two associations have little interest in medical science or patient wellbeing. If they did then stifling criticism would not be their first reaction.

http://www.dougalstanton.net/blog/in...-headed-paper/

For those interested, there’s another new blog post here,
http://yunshui.wordpress.com/2008/08...-the-headline/

although Holfordwatch probably has the best round up from the blogosphere:
http://holfordwatch.info/2008/08/16/...idation-party/

20th August 2008, 12:30 AM	#47
Blue Wode Muse Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 990	Originally Posted by godless dave Has the Guardian said anything about why they pulled the article? Or do they routinely pull "Comment is Free" articles after a certain time frame? Their regular news articles seem to be archived back to the beginning of the web (and you can read them for free!). I wrote to the Guardian at the beginning of July asking why the article had gone missing, but they didn’t reply. As far as I know, they don’t routinely pull CiF articles - indeed, I suspect that this might be the first time that they have done so. Also, it’s worth remembering that this isn’t the first time that the British Chiropractic Association has managed to silence a mainstream newspaper. At the end of last year it managed to have an article ('Chiropractors are a waste of money') deleted from the Daily Telegraph’s website. See page 7 here: http://www.gcc-uk.org/files/page_fil..._GCCNews23.pdf In addition to that, the UK regulatory body, the General Chiropractic Council (GCC), has a habit of firing off emotive letters to newspaper editors whenever any criticism of chiropractic appears in the press. See here: http://www.skeptics.org.uk/forum/sho...05&postcount=3 Suffice to say that the GCC’s behavior seems to be not too far removed from that of the British and New Zealand chiropractic associations - something which blogger Dougal Stanton so aptly describes here: Quote: It should be pretty obvious now that these two associations have little interest in medical science or patient wellbeing. If they did then stifling criticism would not be their first reaction. http://www.dougalstanton.net/blog/in...-headed-paper/ For those interested, there’s another new blog post here, http://yunshui.wordpress.com/2008/08...-the-headline/ although Holfordwatch probably has the best round up from the blogosphere: http://holfordwatch.info/2008/08/16/...idation-party/
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