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Re: The Sunday Times

From:

Oli Usher <[log in to unmask]>

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psci-com: on public engagement with science

Date:

Wed, 17 Aug 2011 16:25:19 +0100

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Private Eye, of course, was no hero in the MMR saga: 
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/greenslade/2010/feb/05/private-eye-magazines

Oli

On 17/08/2011 15:05, Michael Kenward wrote:
> It may sound like an odd one, but have you consulted Private Eye?
>
> As well as the sorry saga of the Sunday Times, they may have dealt with
> other issues where editors have used their organs to push their prejudices.
>
> I can't remember how they dealt with Duesberg and Hodgkinson.
>
> MK
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: psci-com: on public engagement with science
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Robert Ward
> Sent: 2011-August-17 14:01
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [PSCI-COM] The Sunday Times
>
> Thanks for the many e-mails on this topic. I should clarify that I am
> specifically interested in any insights into how The Sunday Times came
> to campaign on this issue and the extent to which the then editor Andrew
> Neil was involved. My reason is that on a number of contentious
> scientific issues, some newspapers have been exploiting the feebleness
> of the self-regulation system to push dodgy theories for their own
> reasons - and that is an issue that should be considered by the review
> by Lord Justice Leveson of the culture and ethics of the Press.
>
> Bob Ward
>
> Policy and Communications Director
> Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment
> London School of Economics and Political Science
> Houghton Street
> London WC2A 2AE
>
> http://www.lse.ac.uk/grantham
>
> Tel. +44 (0) 20 7106 1236
> Mob. +44 (0) 7811 320346
> Twitter: @ret_ward
> -----Original Message-----
> From: psci-com: on public engagement with science
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of R.M.Holliman
> Sent: 17 August 2011 10:54
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [PSCI-COM] The Sunday Times
>
> Hi Bob (and Dom - the cheque for 'parish membership' is in the post)
>
> I can send you a copy of the OU booklet if you're interested. Feel free
> to contact me off-list ([log in to unmask]). What follows is a
> summary....
>
> Holliman, R. (2002). HIV/AIDS: a global pandemic. S802 Science in the
> public. The Open University, Milton Keynes.
>
> The booklet is split into four sections. Section 1 is an introduction to
> some of the background issues which have influenced the global HIV/AIDS
> epidemic. This section briefly reviews the disease's effects on
> sub-Saharan Africa. It goes on to introduce discussion of the 13th
> International AIDS conference, held in Durban, South Africa in July
> 2000. This provides a snapshot of how HIV/AIDS has been understood and
> managed in one sub-Saharan country, South Africa. A key element of this
> debate is examined in Section 2 which reviews the significance of the
> Durban Declaration in relation to scientific debates over whether the
> Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) is the cause of Acquired Immune
> Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS). This Section also reviews a range of
> possible prevention and treatment programmes, highlighting the
> relationship between scientific knowledge and decision making processes.
> Section 3 documents a further influence on HIV/AIDS treatment programmes
> by considering issues of global trade, research and development (R&D) of
> drug treatments, and intellectual property rights. More specifically,
> this Section examines the legal case brought by 39 pharmaceutical
> companies against the South African government's right to import generic
> drugs which could combat HIV/AIDS. Section 5 concludes the booklet by
> reviewing the key themes and topics that the South African HIV/AIDS
> pandemic has raised.
>
> The booklet does discuss Peter Duesberg's work, but the focus is on
> sub-Saharan Africa. For a UK perspective, you could try:
>
> Miller, D., Kitzinger, J. and Beharell, K. (1998). The Circuit of Mass
> Communication - Media Strategies, Representation and Audience Reception
> in the AIDS Crisis. London, Sage.
>
> Best wishes
> Rick
>
> Dr. Richard Holliman
> Senior Lecturer in Science Communication
> Department of Environment, Earth and Ecosystems
> Science Faculty
> The Open University
> Walton Hall
> Milton Keynes
> MK7 6AA
> Tel +44 (0)1908 654646
>
> Select http://www.open.ac.uk/personalpages/r.m.holliman for more
> information about my work.
>
> Select http://isotope.open.ac.uk for the Isotope website.
>
> ________________________________________
> From: Dominic McDonald [[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: 16 August 2011 15:47
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [PSCI-COM] The Sunday Times
>
> Hi Bob
>
> I have in my hand a document called "HIV and AIDS: A Global Pandemic".
> It's a Case Study which was part of my MSc at the Open University in
> 2003ish. It says it was written by Rick Holliman, who I believe is of
> this parish. I only have it in hard copy, but he may have it
> electronically. (If it's of use it seems to have the reference S802 Part
> A. SUP 68252 2)
>
> It has a relatively open-minded appraisal of the does-HIV-cause-AIDS
> controversy, but doesn't mention the Sunday Times role in the whole
> thing.
>
> Dom
> -----Original Message-----
> From: psci-com: on public engagement with science
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Mary Rice
> Sent: 16 August 2011 15:06
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [PSCI-COM] The Sunday Times
>
> You bring back some memories with that! I had a look on Peter Duesberg's
> website and, in the section headed 'Media', there's a lot about Neville
> Hodgkinson plus the headlines of all of the pieces he wrote on the
> subject.   Unfortunately not many of them have urls, but it might help a
> bit.
>
> As far as an account of the campaign goes, I'm not aware of an objective
> one.  Hodgkinson wrote a book about it, though......
>
> Mary Rice
>
>
>> Does anybody know of a good account of the campaign by 'The Sunday
>> Times' in the late 1980s-early 1990s to convince its readers that HIV
>> was not the cause of AIDS?
>>
>> Bob Ward
>>
>> Policy and Communications Director
>> Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment
>> London School of Economics and Political Science
>> Houghton Street
>> London WC2A 2AE
>>
>> http://www.lse.ac.uk/grantham
>>
>> Tel. +44 (0) 20 7106 1236
>> Mob. +44 (0) 7811 320346
>> Twitter: @ret_ward
>>
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