Category: Corrections & Clarifications
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Marie Stopes: The Eugenics Agenda Ignored by the BBC
Introduction The BBC’s historical profile of Marie Stopes is one of the highest-ranking articles when people search for information about her life and work. Because the BBC is widely trusted, readers assume that its summary offers a complete and balanced picture. However, the BBC page, which was originally published years ago and is now “archived”,…
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Disinformation and the BBC (Part 2)
The previous post set out correspondence with the BBC in relation to a false claim on one of their programs, namely, that the work of Dr Marie Stopes had “very little” to do with eugenics. While the interview did not mention Dr Sutherland directly, the removal of eugenics from Stopes’ work removes much of what…
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Disinformation and the BBC (Part 1)
This website was set up to counter the calumnies about Dr Halliday Sutherland perpetrated by the disciples, biographers and hagiographers of Dr Marie Stopes. In 2014, I complained about the BBC’s history website which perpetuates the “Catholics against contraceptives” trope: In 1921, Stopes opened a family planning clinic in Holloway, north London, the first in…
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Getting it wrong, again
Nine fake “facts” about the Stopes v. Sutherland libel trial As we approach the centenary of the Stopes v Sutherland libel trial, the fake “facts” about the trial will no doubt be reprised. Here are nine commonly-known facts about the Stopes v Sutherland libel trial that are false: False fact #1: Stopes was put on…
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“_____ _______”
This month’s article is a question: Which words are missing from the sentence below? “Among the subjects which are agitating the public mind at the present time none approaches in importance the question of what is now generally known as _____ _______.” Here are some clues: it was written in 1922 and the next sentence…