So why am I Tweeting about this? Well, after I wrote about the @BBC article, I got a nastygram from Hallwang. 11/pic.twitter.com/yFvgjQ2GAe
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So why am I Tweeting about this? Well, after I wrote about the @BBC article, I got a nastygram from Hallwang. 11/pic.twitter.com/yFvgjQ2GAe
My response, as always to lethal thuggery, was to ask specifically Hallwang thought to be erroneous/libelous. In this case I also couldn't help but note that the @BBC hadn't changed the article as far as I could tell. 12/pic.twitter.com/Mq8Isebkxv
I didn't hear anything after that for nearly four months. Then, out of the blue, Hallwang emailed me again on the Fourth of July. 13/pic.twitter.com/7o6d2wDJyA
I couldn't believe it. Had @BBC actually caved to legal threats from what I considered a quack clinic? Was it true? Unfortunately it appears to be true. Here's the link to the original article. It now returns a 404 error. 14/ https://www.bbc.com/news/health-47442946 …
And here's the Wayback Machine version of the same link. As you can see, the reporting appears to have been quite solid. 15/https://web.archive.org/web/20190306123354/https://www.bbc.com/news/health-47442946 …
Because @BBC cravenly caved, I had little choice but to take my post down too, at least temporarily. Basically, the BBC had left me and any others who had commented on its story out to dry, and having broken links on the blog is bad anyway. 16/pic.twitter.com/JdDg5eBssY
Very odd and frustrating. Also, I think the @bbc owes cancer patients an explanation? #ProtectCancerPatients #Integrity and perhaps @bbc could take note of this excellent programme @RTE_PrimeTime @ConorWilson #Cancer patients deserve fearless investigative journalism 1/2
I have an observer piece on this tomorrow - you're all in it, Conor's show cited.
I noticed the video for the story is still up on the BBC FB page...
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