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Steve Connor, a science journalist for The Independent, heard about a meeting of critics of science journalism, including Ben Goldacre, and took ill-informed exception:

The medics met in a pub in London last night to explain why the "mainstream media's science coverage is broken, misleading, dangerous, lazy, venal and silly". All three speakers are gainfully employed by the public sector so they don't actually have to worry too much about the sort of pressures and financial constraints the mainstream media are under. But they nevertheless condescended to offer some advice on the sort of "best practice guidelines" I should be following, for which I suppose I should be eternally grateful.

But their arrogance is not new. Medical doctors in particular have always had a lofty attitude to the media's coverage of their profession, stemming no doubt from the God-like stance they take towards their patients.

Pretty much everybody quickly pointed out that two of the three speakers aren't "medics" and the meeting hasn't happened yet.

And in the LJ-powered comments section of the article, everybody else (including yr humble correspondent) smacked Steve Connor the fuck down.

I recommend having a look before the mods determine that we're violating Steve Connor's safe space and interfering with his difficult job of spreading lies about vaccines. He's under so many pressures and financial constraints, and those children won't kill themselves!