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Hello, I'm glad this investigation is underway. I was planning on pointing out the facts listed above. 1) The cited sources rarely, if ever, actually support the clearly biased claims on the web page. 2) The IP addresses curiously all resolve to the
California area in close proximity to the
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Knowledge. I believe the following timeline supports a finding of abusive sockpuppetry in the last 8 hours. The two problematic edits are in italics, the remainder is potentially relevant background.
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account pushing his POV, but given his edit pattern (a few edits every so many days), I can't say for certain he is the IPs. As a result I'm blocking the IPs for 72 hours each, and hoping they don't show up again.
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I would have less of a problem with the physician advertising on the page, but the sources that he cites just do not make sense. He is clearly attempting to misinform the general public.
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