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Skepticism, Science & Pseudoscience

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muriel_volestrangler

(101,322 posts)
Wed Dec 19, 2012, 08:02 PM Dec 2012

This feels bizarre - the infamous Infowars wesbite links to my post to debunk something [View all]

via a GD thread (great, a newbie who links to the RW Infowars conspiracy theory website), I find that they have written an article that accepts 'Jonathan Lanza' was not Adam Lanza's uncle or cousin, but a hoaxer who claimed the killer was taking Fanapt, but nevertheless they feel sure he must have been on some drug anyway.

But they link to my post:

The reason for it being removed was likely the fact, as reported by Democratic Underground, that the claim that Lanza was on Fanapt was allegedly made not by Lanza’s real uncle, but by an Internet troll who reportedly inserts himself into every mass shooting story by posing as a family member of the killer.

http://www.infowars.com/fanapt-hoax-hides-real-connection-between-shooters-and-ssri-drugs/


It's good that they haven't gone down the "Big Pharma put pressure on Big Media" route, which at least one DUer has; but I still feel a bit soiled by being linked to by Infowars at all.
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