[Dean's World] Dean: Urging the BBC to Censor Themselves

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Posted by Dean:
Urging the BBC to Censor Themselves
http://www.deanesmay.com/posts/1170636708.shtml


   I am often critical of the BBC. But it's usually over very specific
   points and very specific practices. I don't think they're a terrible
   organization by any means. Indeed, I think they are something the
   British should generally be very proud of. The BBC World Service is a
   gift to the world that every Brit should be proud of.

   Recently there was a stingingly critical piece put out by the BBC
   called "Guinea Pig Kids," which looked at some truly horrible
   practices in HIV/AIDS research on children. Mostly poor children with
   no parents or individual guardians to protect them. Wherever you come
   down on the HIV debate, I think most people would be appalled at some
   of what's been going on in the name of this research.

   Recently some in the HIV/AIDS establishment--and there is such an
   establishment, by the way, paid by both corporate and government
   sources--has been trying to censor the "Guinea Pig Kids" story. It is
   literal censorship that they're advocating: they want the video pulled
   from general distribution, and for the BBC to pull everything off the
   Internet that they have on this story.

   Dr. Andrew Maniotis of the Department of Pathology at the University
   of Illinois at Chicago [1]has a lot to say on the matter that you
   should read.

   The endless quest to shut these people up should tell you something.
   More on the Guinea Pig Kids [2]right here from the BBC.

References

   1. http://barnesworld.blogs.com/barnes_world/2007/01/andrew_maniotis.html#comment-28631597
   2. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/this_world/4035345.stm