This was posted on the Conservative Treehouse: The article that comes up when you do a search for “adam lanza fanapt” cites another article that supposedly says that the Uncle said he was on Fanapt. However, that original article has been scrubbed of any such reference. It was definitely there at one time, because there are dozens (if not more) links to it. The NY Magazine article that discusses this: http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2012/12/aspergers-is-a-red-herring-to-explain-newtown.html Adam Lanza’s mother had been increasingly concerned over her son’s well-being in the weeks before the tragedy, telling a friend just a week before that he was “getting worse” and that “she was losing him,” the New York Daily News reported. That report makes no mention of Asperger’s syndrome, but it cites Adam’s uncle who said he was taking an anti-psychotic drug called Fanapt. However, if you click the link that they give you for the New York Daily News, it takes you to this page, where there is now no mention of Fanapt. http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/nancy-lanza-feared-son-adam-worse-article-1.1221505 So, the question is – if the uncle really did say this, why has the information now been scrubbed? If he DIDN’T say this, then why did the NY Daily News originally report that he did, and why did they scrub that information without notification on the page that it had been scrubbed for cause? Note the byline at the top of the page on the 2nd link I posted above: Published: Sunday, December 16, 2012, 1:28 PM Updated: Monday, December 17, 2012, 9:17 AM Who edited it, and why did they remove the reference to Fanapt? I noticed that in the comments, someone is asking this question: EvelynPringle 24 hours ago Didn’t the original version of this story say that Adam Lanza was taking the drug Fanapt? I am an investigative journalist and several people contacted me to tell me this but I informed them that the story does not say that. They all said that the paragraph with that statement had been removed. I would like to know why and who did that. jane1723 hours ago The writers were fooled by someone pretending to be Adam Lanza’s uncle. Instead of fessing up about this they have simply deleted that part of the article. So someone claims that the article was scrubbed because it was misinformation. However, if you do a search for “Adam Lanza Fanapt uncle hoax” then you don’t get any relevant hits. So, is “jane1723″ a false name created simply for the purpose of telling people that it was a hoax, as if it’s common knowledge, when in reality the paper scrubbed the information about Fanapt because of pressure from the anti-gun lobby?
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The article that comes up when you do a search for “adam lanza fanapt” cites another article that supposedly says that the Uncle said he was on Fanapt. However, that original article has been scrubbed of any such reference. It was definitely there at one time, because there are dozens (if not more) links to it.
The NY Magazine article that discusses this:
Aspergers is a red herring...
Adam Lanza’s mother had been increasingly concerned over her son’s well-being in the weeks before the tragedy, telling a friend just a week before that he was “getting worse” and that “she was losing him,” the New York Daily News reported. That report makes no mention of Asperger’s syndrome, but it cites Adam’s uncle who said he was taking an anti-psychotic drug called Fanapt.
However, if you click the link that they give you for the New York Daily News, it takes you to this page, where there is now no mention of Fanapt.
Nancy Lanza feared son Adam...
So, the question is – if the uncle really did say this, why has the information now been scrubbed? If he DIDN’T say this, then why did the NY Daily News originally report that he did, and why did they scrub that information without notification on the page that it had been scrubbed for cause? Note the byline at the top of the page on the 2nd link I posted above:
Published: Sunday, December 16, 2012, 1:28 PM
Updated: Monday, December 17, 2012, 9:17 AM
Who edited it, and why did they remove the reference to Fanapt? I noticed that in the comments, someone is asking this question:
EvelynPringle 24 hours ago
Didn’t the original version of this story say that Adam Lanza was taking the drug Fanapt? I am an investigative journalist and several people contacted me to tell me this but I informed them that the story does not say that. They all said that the paragraph with that statement had been removed. I would like to know why and who did that.
jane1723 hours ago
The writers were fooled by someone pretending to be Adam Lanza’s uncle. Instead of fessing up about this they have simply deleted that part of the article.
So someone claims that the article was scrubbed because it was misinformation. However, if you do a search for “Adam Lanza Fanapt uncle hoax” then you don’t get any relevant hits. So, is “jane1723″ a false name created simply for the purpose of telling people that it was a hoax, as if it’s common knowledge, when in reality the paper scrubbed the information about Fanapt because of pressure from the anti-gun lobby?