Accuracy in Media

Alfie Evans, a British toddler who suffers from a severe neurological disorder, has been off life support since Monday. Alfie’s parents are seeking additional treatment and care in Italy, where Pope Francis and the Vatican had offered refuge from the British National Health Service (NHS). The NHS and Alder Hey’s hospital medical staff said that […]

Last July, British infant Charlie Gard was suffering from a fatal genetic disorder. However, Gard’s parents wanted to seek additional treatment and care that could have helped their son. A similar case has emerged in the United Kingdom and the child’s name is Alfie Evans. Evans suffers from a neurological disorder that is likely fatal […]

This is the second in a three-part series. In Part 1 of this series, we discussed the content and tone of the political rhetoric leftist propagandists use to criticize the proposed GOP health care plans vis-à-vis ObamaCare. In part 2, we will describe the propaganda efforts used by progressives to cite dubious statistics to tar […]

Robert Klitzman, director of a masters program in bioethics at Columbia University, says Mike Pence’s comments on Charlie Gard are “alarming” because they seek to “undermine single-payer health systems.” Pence “politicized a tragic story,” Klitzman said, when the vice president told Rush Limbaugh “the American people ought to reflect on the fact that for all the talk […]

It has become an international story. Charlie Gard is a seriously ill infant in the United Kingdom, who has been denied the opportunity to go to the United States to receive experimental treatment for a genetic condition. His parents, Chris Gard and Connie Yates, petitioned the Great Ormond Street Hospital, the national hospital system, the […]