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His view of the more bureaucratically inclined Birt is by no means all negative? he accepts he played a crucial role in preparing the BBC for the digital age? but BBC kremlinologists believe Yentob's career stalled under Birt, which is why he didn't succeed him in 2000, and there may be some lingering animosity.

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In fact, the late British screen writer Dennis Potter -- who just before he died said that he named his cancer "Rupert" after Rupert Murdoch -- called Birt at the same conference years back a "croak-voiced dalek." who was killing the soul of the BBC.

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"Birt," said the tanner coaxingly, "thar ain't no use in denyin 'it enny mo'.

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Compatriots like Sallie Bernard (a “tough businesswoman” with “upbeat emotions”), Liz Birt (a woman possessing a “fierce streak of determination and independence”), and Mark Blaxill (a man with a “remarkable aptitude for statistical analysis”) sounded just as appealing.

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There was also Medical Interventions for Autism MIA, which Liz Birt founded for the express purpose of raising money to support Andrew Wakefield; Talk About Curing Autism, which began when Lisa Ackerman posted a message on a Yahoo!

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By the end of the afternoon, Kirby had introduced himself to Sallie Bernard and Liz Birt and told them he was interested in writing a book about their movement.

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At one point, Liz Birt was given a voodoo doll of McCormick so she could stick it “full of pins.”

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After hearing rumors that the CDC was “preparing itself for a bomb,” Sallie Bernard, Liz Birt, Lyn Redwood, and some of the other SafeMinds stalwarts set to work preparing three separate statements: one if the committee recognized a link between vaccines and autism, one if it did not, and one if it split the difference.

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His supporters were as well: In 2004, with the help of several hundred thousand dollars raised by Liz Birt and a $1 million donation from Jane Johnson and her husband, Wakefield teamed up with Arthur Krigsman to set up a clinic in Austin, Texas.

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Along with Sallie Bernard, one of the most stalwart of her geographically diverse allies was Liz Birt, a Chicago attorney with an autistic son named Matthew.

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