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  • 2019-01-10 (xsd:date)
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  • Did a Priest Need Surgery to Remove a Crucifix from His Rectum? (en)
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  • Not content to mine mugshots for its satirical content, the World News Daily Report (WNDR) junk news site branched out for one story into appropriating a photograph of a medical pioneer. An article originally published by WNDR on 26 September 2017 and republished on 10 January 2019 involved one Father Wendel O'Connor, who was purportedly hospitalized under embarrassing circumstances: Like all of WNDR's content, the story was fabricated, as was the reference to Doctor James Shephard, the name attached to a photograph featured in the article: The photograph actually depicts Dr. Morris F. Collen, one of the original members of the Permanente Medical Group. That group is better known today as the health care provider Kaiser Permanente. According to the company, the photograph of Collen used by WNDR was originally published on the cover of Modern Medicine magazine in 1968. Collen's research led to Kaiser Permanente's producing one of the first computer databases devoted to tracking patients' health. He died on 27 September 2014 at the age of 100. The also used Collen's image for another fabricated article, a February 2016 report about a teenage girl who claimed that she had been divinely impregnated by an angel. WNDR's articles include disclaimers at the bottom noting that they are fictional in nature: Reached for comment, Kaiser Permanente said that they had contacted WNDR asking the site to take down its latest use of Collen's image. (en)
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