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Crusader falsifies data to show a link between media vi... - 2/20/2013 8:26:08 PM   
DarkSteven


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Status: offline 		Back in 1954.

It's amazing that nobody reviewed his notes previously.

A trivia bit not mentioned in the article is that he indirectly helped birth Mad Magazine. His ballyhoo caused EC Comics to shut down, and the core nucleus of EC then wrote and published Mad.

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RE: Crusader falsifies data to show a link between medi... - 2/20/2013 9:11:44 PM   
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A fun read, Steve. Thanks.

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RE: Crusader falsifies data to show a link between medi... - 2/20/2013 9:56:01 PM   
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RE: Crusader falsifies data to show a link between medi... - 2/21/2013 1:39:56 AM   
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Status: offline 		Thank you. I happened to stumble upon the comics scare only last week - though I already have forgotten how or why - and it is good to now learn that scientific fraud was involved.

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RE: Crusader falsifies data to show a link between medi... - 2/21/2013 2:08:58 AM   
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The tradition is to ass u me the data is real because YOU, PERSONALLY, don't have in hand data to refute it. I just LOVE the way Wertham would 'discover' what he was pretending to be looking for. In fact, anything and nothing would have and did elicit the same conclusion on his part. This is the way things work when you invent the data you want to find.

Comic books are the reason anything bad happens. Nosepicking. Fighting. Not combing hair. Buttoning shirt crooked. Wearing hat indoors. Failing to step aside, doff hat and say, "Good morning Mr. Wertham!"

Or is it TV that is to blame?

Or is it Videogames?

The takeaway point is : He got his way. People really are that stupid.

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RE: Crusader falsifies data to show a link between medi... - 2/21/2013 8:15:39 AM   
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Status: offline 		Dr. Wertham study was conducted mostly while he was on staff at a juvenile hall, he noted the wards read comic books. His study lead the US Senate to conduct an investigation into possible links between comic books and juvnile deliquency. The hearings were run by Senator Estes Kefauver and Senator Robert Hendrickson. Senator Kefauver was very much into organized crime and conducted many hearings on that issue. One time he even had Bettie Page come to the hearings, she never testified. Others sumoned were Al Capp (Lil Abner) and Chester Gould (Dick Tracy) to be questioned on comics having subliminal messages in the cartoons that made juveniles commit crime. Kefauver was often photographed wearing a Davy Crockett fur cap much like the one worn by Fess Parker in the Disney movies. From the hearing the Comic Book Code of 1954 was created.


http://www.crimeboss.com/history03-1.html

http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/6543/

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