{"id":452357,"date":"2010-03-20T13:06:18","date_gmt":"2010-03-20T17:06:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/intersection\/?p=7396"},"modified":"2010-03-20T13:06:18","modified_gmt":"2010-03-20T17:06:18","slug":"delightful-smears-from-the-anti-vaccine-folks-the-intersection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/452357","title":{"rendered":"Delightful Smears from the Anti-Vaccine Folks | The Intersection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I get smeared sometimes. As a journalist who has <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/motherjones.com\/environment\/2005\/05\/some-it-hot\">actually written<\/a> on conflict of interest, it can be amusing to watch&#8211;but rarely <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.ageofautism.com\/2010\/03\/chris-mooneys-pharmaceutical-influence.html\">this amusing<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Chris Mooney\u2019s Pharmaceutical Influence<\/p>\n<p>By Jake Crosby<\/p>\n<p>He is the drug industry\u2019s newer, trendier go-to guy in the media, replacing the role of Arthur Allen, who took a break to write about tomatoes. An ex-patriot of \u201cScience\u201dBlogs who now blogs for Discover, and contributing editor to Science Progress, Chris Mooney is perhaps Pharma\u2019s newest writer who has taken on the task of spoon-feeding its message to the public.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>From there it is smears all the way down. You can read the whole thing <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.ageofautism.com\/2010\/03\/chris-mooneys-pharmaceutical-influence.html\">here<\/a>. My favorite sentence:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Yet despite the previously described mingling with obvious denialists and plagiarists, Chris Mooney is perhaps most notorious in the autism community&#8230;.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>You complete the sentence. But make sure to include the word &#8220;Pharma&#8221; at least twice&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><strong>PS: <\/strong>Orac <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/insolence\/2009\/09\/a_crazy_mixed_up_kid_comes_up_with_a_cra.php\">has more<\/a> on Jake Crosby&#8217;s endeavors&#8230;..written pretty kindly, as I think this particular case deserves.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/DiscoverMag\/~4\/5ehryR0cTOQ\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I get smeared sometimes. As a journalist who has actually written on conflict of interest, it can be amusing to watch&#8211;but rarely this amusing: Chris Mooney\u2019s Pharmaceutical Influence By Jake Crosby He is the drug industry\u2019s newer, trendier go-to guy in the media, replacing the role of Arthur Allen, who took a break to write [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":641,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-452357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/641"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=452357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452357\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}