Not anymore. At some (recent) point, the site’s corrections page was changed to remove all current and archival corrections. The page now contains boilerplate text informing readers that corrections are placed on the offending piece of content. Meaning: you can’t also find them on this corrections page anymore.

Why the change?

This is the second time I’ve made note of Salon’s corrections page. The first was in 2005 when the site removed the link to its corrections page from the homepage. Now, six years later, it’s eliminated corrections from its corrections page. Not a good trend.

I’d prefer to see news organizations increasing the availability of online corrections, rather than reducing it.

Good people of Salon, I call upon you to put the corrections back on your corrections page, and restore the link form your homepage.

Seth Mnookin, a journalist and author whose new book, The Panic Virus, details how the vaccines-cause-autism myth began and took hold, offers some fantastic background and analysis on Retraction Watch.

Salon's retraction:

In 2005, Salon published online an exclusive story by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. that offered an explosive premise: that the mercury-based thimerosal compound present in vaccines until 2001 was dangerous, and that he was "convinced that the link between thimerosal and the epidemic of childhood neurological disorders is real."

The piece was co-published with Rolling Stone magazine — they fact-checked it and published it in print; we posted it online. In the days after running "Deadly Immunity," we amended the story with five corrections (which can still be found logged here) that went far in undermining Kennedy's exposé. At the time, we felt that correcting the piece — and keeping it on the site, in the spirit of transparency — was the best way to operate. But subsequent critics, including most recently, Seth Mnookin in his book "The Panic Virus," further eroded any faith we had in the story's value. We've grown to believe the best reader service is to delete the piece entirely.

"I regret we didn't move on this more quickly, as evidence continued to emerge debunking the vaccines and autism link," says former Salon editor in chief Joan Walsh, now editor at large. "But continued revelations of the flaws and even fraud tainting the science behind the connection make taking down the story the right thing to do." The story's original URL now links to our autism topics page, which we believe now offers a strong record of clear thinking and skeptical coverage we're proud of — including the critical pursuit of others who continue to propagate the debunked, and dangerous, autism-vaccine link.

Your move, Rolling Stone.