Lying to their Supporters -

You would think that extremist groups would avoid lying to their supporters. By that I mean deliberate dishonesty.  Because that can turn the supporters away.

Age of Autism has just done this.  By linking to an article by Mike Adams of Natural News.  Mike's revelation proving that Wakefield was done wrong is to point to a presentation by Professor Walker-Smith in December 1996, some 14 months before the 1998 paper came out. In that presentation, Walker-Smith reported finding very similar to those that would be made in 1998.   According to Mike Adams, these were independent.

Now Mike Adams might have been so ignorant that he, despite repeatedly writing on the subject, doesn't know that Professor Walker-Smith  was the second (though by custom listed last) author on the paper. He might not know that Walker-Smith did the initial clinical examinations of the children. Certainly Walker-Smith wasn't independent.

But Age of Autism certainly knows. Yet they put a link to the article and allow (because they censor) comments supporting this nonsense.  So yes, AoA deliberately lies to its readers.