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I Speak of Dreams (Free subscription) | 03/14/2010
A woman named Barbara Loe Fisher filed suit against Paul Offit, Amy Wallace, and Conde Nast (the publisher of the magazine WIRED) over two words. Whoot! Fisher's suit thrown out! Reactions: Amy Wallace has the text of the ruling Sullivan...
Terra Sigillata (Free subscription) | 03/10/2010
Writer Amy Wallace just tweeted and posted to her blog the fabulous news that a pending libel case against her and physician Paul Offit has been dismissed. Amy Wallace was the author of the centerpiece article in a Wired magazine feature on how antivaccination activists create fear and confusion by distorting and misrepresenting facts about vaccines. This article "An Epidemic of...
Click World News (Free subscription) | 03/18/2010
Reporter Amy Wallace wrote an article late last year for Wired Magazine about the extremely heated and somewhat controversial debate over child vaccinations . In the course of the article, she quotes people from both sides. At one point, when one of the main doctors who supports vaccinations discusses the woman who has become the face (and voice) of the anti-vaccination crew, he responds to...
Techdirt (Free subscription) | 03/18/2010
Reporter Amy Wallace wrote an article late last year for Wired Magazine about the extremely heated and somewhat controversial debate over child vaccinations . In the course of the article, she quotes people from both sides. At one point, when one of the main doctors who supports vaccinations discusses the woman who has become the face (and voice) of the anti-vaccination crew, he responds to...
SoCal Sports Observed (Free subscription) | 03/10/2010
Amy Wallace was served two days before Christmas with the suit seeking $1 million in damages from a woman mentioned in her November cover story in Wired on the anti-vaccine movement.
Respectful Insolence (Free subscription) | 03/11/2010
Well, that didn't take long. Remember when the grande dame of the anti-vaccine movement, Barbara Loe Fisher, decided that she would try to harass, intimidate, and silence Paul Offit through the filing of a frivolous libel suit against Dr. Offit, Amy Wallace (the journalist who interviewed Offit for an excellent article last year), and Condé Nast, the publisher of WIRED, which ran the...
Left Brain/Right Brain (Free subscription) | 03/11/2010
If you recall, last October Wired Magazine had an article: An Epidemic of Fear: How Panicked Parents Skipping Shots Endangers Us All . Barbara Loe Fisher of the self-named National Vaccine Information Center took issue with a section of that article and sued Dr. Paul Offit. The complaint is here . Ms. Fisher was suing Dr. Offit, Amy Wallace (who wrote the story for Wired) and Conde Nast Publishing...
GeekDad (Free subscription) | 02/11/2010
I’m talking about vaccinating your kids, of course. You’ve heard most of this before, from Amy Wallace’s Wired cover story in November to Matt Blum’s piece about the H1N1 vaccine in October. But last week there was one more piece of news: The Lancet, the medical journal that broke the news about the autism-vaccination link, publicly [...]