An open letter to David Kirby and Dan Olmsted about the Kathleen Seidel subpoena
Orac has written this open letter. Please spread it far and wide.
Dear Mr. Kirby and Mr. Olmsted:
You are both journalists. I realize that neither of you at present work for the traditional press and that both of you seem to devote yourselves mainly to blogging (Mr. Olmsted at the Age of Autism and Mr. Kirby at the Huffington Post), but I have to believe that you both still consider yourselves to be at heart journalists. That is why I am writing this to you and posting it publicly on my blog. If you’ve ever read any of my posts on this issue, you probably realize that I strongly disagree with your positions and that at times I have been quite harsh in my judgment of articles you have both written. I am, however, hoping that for this one issue, upon which (I hope) we can all agree that you will for the moment put that aside and consider what I have to say. I am appealing for your condemnation of what has been done to autism blogger Kathleen Seidel.
The letter continues at Respectful Insolence
I hope that Olmsted and Kirby respond. As Orac points out later in his letter, if a vaccine injury lawyer is allowed to silence his critics with a subpoena, government and industry lawyers will take note and journalist bloggers like Olmsted and Kirby could be next in line.
