The Daily Mail: Campaigning both For AND Against the HPV Vaccine in Different Countries Simultaneously
http://www.layscience.net/node/507
http://www.layscience.net/node/507
are the UK and Irish Daily Mails totally different then? Genuine question - i have no idea, have never been to ireland. I don't think it's completely outlandish to assume that they'd both be at least quite similar and/or have fairly similar stances on issues like this. And i think i probably would be quite surprised if the guardian ran a strongly pro-HPV vaccine story on a saturday and then the observer ran a strongly anti-HPV vaccine story the next day, but maybe i'm just being naive. Admittedly i am often incapable of grasping the finer details of complex and delicately nuanced issues, as rich says.
Secondly, your assertion that these are "two different papers" is deeply flawed - the Irish edition is basically just the British edition with a different layout and a few Irish-centric stories. They share much of the same content and even the same columnists, along with most of the same staff.
Thirdly and following on from that, we're not talking about some Irish journalists disagreeing with some British journalists, we're talking about the editorial stance - set by the same London-based people. And that's why this is a noteworthy story.
I don't think it's completely outlandish to assume that they'd both be at least quite similar and/or have fairly similar stances on issues like this. And i think i probably would be quite surprised if the guardian ran a strongly pro-HPV vaccine story on a saturday and then the observer ran a strongly anti-HPV vaccine story the next day, but maybe i'm just being naive.
It's the bizarre conclusion that the two papers' differing opinions 'prove' that they're both pure evil that I objected to.
Callers have been told, apparently by giggling lunatics on 'helplines', that various forms of lawless brain-frying are really all right. No surprise to me.