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<p>This is relevant to my interests.</p> <p>jameth</p>]]></description>
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		    <description><![CDATA[<p>@<a href="#c4800252">Michael Belisle</a>: I don't need to prove it, it needs to be disproved. In the magical land of hyperbole negatives are a given.</p>
<p>@<a href="#c4803718">Monsieur.Mind</a>: A country that is famous for their child sex trade has a police force you'd take seriously? I don't expect someone to say they witnessed him 24/7/365 by himself, I would like to see someone say he wasn't living with some kid in Sri Lanka when people have said he has. I don't really care that he's a pedophile, he was still a pretty solid writer, but if there's one thing anyone who has lived on this Earth for more than 3 weeks should have learned it is that rumors that go around for years and years on end almost always have some basis in fact.</p> <p><a href="n/a">Dweezil</a></p>]]></description>
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		    <description><![CDATA[<p>I have to wonder: if his legacy is his literary output, why does anyone feel the requirement to defend his life. I don't know how he lived his life, and as a good Vancouverite I don't really give a rat's ass as long as anyone he was diddling was over the age of diddlification in Vancouver which at the time was probably 12 as well.</p> <p><a href="http://raincoaster.com">raincoaster</a></p>]]></description>
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		    <description><![CDATA[<P>@<A href="http://valleywag.com/369964/best-buys-geek-squad-celebrates-death-of-noted-pedophile-arthur-c-clarke-tonight#c4799840">Dweezil</A>: Your logic is flawless. Should we even bother to ask where to find an eye-witness account stating <I>you</I> weren't living with a young boy in Sri Lanka when you were younger? Please provide a witness that, for every minute of your post-adolescent life, can place you outside of Sri Lanka and far from little boys.</P>
<P>And what do you mean "<B>obviously</B> Sri Lankan police investigations can't be taken seriously[...]"? Obviously?</P> <p>Monsieur.Mind</p>]]></description>
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		    <description><![CDATA[<p>@<a href="#c4799422">Dweezil</a>: Live with a boy for years?  Would the boy become a man after "years?"</p>
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		    <description><![CDATA[<p>I have to concur, it's pretty low to dredge this up. Besides, I can think of worse fates than being Sir Arthur's houseboy, like working in a sweatshop.</p> <p><a href="http://www.mothersagainstdrunkdialing.com">Ivan Ivanobrockovich</a></p>]]></description>
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		    <description><![CDATA[<P>This is sad. I don't believe that Geek Squad was memorializing Clarke for his alleged pedophilia, i'm pretty sure they were memorializing him for his writing. This is just gawker media taking another (half assed) swing at Best Buy and the Geek Squad.<BR>At the very least, Gawker should be issuing a retractio nthat Clarke was an alleged pedophile, theres a huge difference between stating that someone IS something, and that someone was ACCUSED of something.</P> <p>ritual</p>]]></description>
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		    <description><![CDATA[<p>@<a href="#c4799840">Dweezil</a>: Nope, that doesn't pass muster as a proof. In the meantime, please prove that Barack Obama is not a closet muslim.  Rumors are going around about that too.</p>
<p>Oh, and on that note, Glenn Beck would like you to prove that Keith Ellison is not working with our enemies:<div class="comment-video-thumb"><a class="vlink" href="javascript:toggleVideoComment('yFkpEduQJZo')"><img src="http://img.youtube.com/vi/yFkpEduQJZo/1.jpg" /></a><br /><a id="ylink_yFkpEduQJZo" href="javascript:toggleVideoComment('yFkpEduQJZo')">+ Watch video</a></div><div class="comment-video" id="yvid_yFkpEduQJZo" style="display: none;"><object width="425" height="355"><param value="http://www.youtube.com/v/yFkpEduQJZo&autoplay=1" name="movie"/><param name="wmode" value="transparent"/><embed width="425" height="355" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/yFkpEduQJZo&autoplay=1" wmode="transparent"/></object></div></p><p></p>
<p>He's not accusing him. He's <a href="http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=117466&amp;title=the-question-mark">just asking</a>.</p> <p>Michael Belisle</p>]]></description>
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		    <description><![CDATA[<p>@<a href="#c4799615">Michael Belisle</a>: I don't know, how about an eye-witness account from someone who was with him for a long period of time stating that he wasn't staying with a young boy in Sri Lanka when he was younger? Obviously Sri Lankan police investigations can't be taken seriously, and The Daily Mirror is a joke, but just because one shitty publication said something unfounded doesn't mean the rumors surrounding him even prior to that weren't based in some fact.</p> <p><a href="n/a">Dweezil</a></p>]]></description>
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		    <description><![CDATA[<p>@<a href="#c4799422">Dweezil</a>: If I read you correctly, you just assigned homework problem 1: <i>Prove that Sir Arthur C. Clarke is not a pedophile.</i></p>
<p>I'm just curious: what would that proof entail for you to accept it?</p>
<p>The idea is generally <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presumption_of_innocence">innocent until proven guilty</a>, not the other way around.</p> <p>Michael Belisle</p>]]></description>
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		    <description><![CDATA[<p>@<a href="#c4799114">raincoaster</a>: Can we consider the Mirror's complete failure to mention <a href="http://www.mirror.co.uk/showbiz/2008/03/19/space-odyssey-legend-arthur-c-clarke-dies-aged-90-89520-20355856/">anything about their 1998 story in their obituary</a> a retraction?</p>
<p>Clarke never pressed the issue with them because it was so absurd. When <a href="#c4785421">he was cleared</a>, he said "Quite frankly I have never been worried about it. I was annoyed, but not worried".</p>
<p>His ex-wife's detail was limited to "He had the first VCR anyone there had ever seen, and his pet monkey used to steal their laundry from the clotheslines." Everything else he admitted was rehashing old rumors he supposedly didn't believe.</p> <p>Michael Belisle</p>]]></description>
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		    <description><![CDATA[<p>@<a href="#c4793510">humorbot</a>: They are all equally easy targets. The mothers are responsible for the kids, the problem with the whiny sci-fi kids are a given, consumerist readers are inherently ridiculous, and Sri Lanka's national sport is volleyball--which, if nothing else, is insulting to people who appreciate real sports.</p>
<p>@<a href="#c4797317">uhhhclem</a>: It's also one of the few spots where he could live with a boy for years on end.</p>
<p>@<a href="#c4793710">DreadPirate</a>: Still waiting for someone to disprove it! The Mirror article, as most Mirror articles are, was ridiculous--but the rumors of pedophilia from what I know predated it.</p>
<p>@<a href="#c4791120">tootingbec</a>: I can think of plenty of reasons to live on tropical islands. I can only think of one reason to live on a tropical island that is also a poor, third world country where children are traded like collectible Pez dispensers, human rights abuses are the norm and they have their own little token rebel terrorist group.</p>
<p>@<a href="#c4799169">Blackjack</a>: ... I'm sorry, have to read Robert Heinlein? I think he's the best of the three, but if you read his books in chronographical order he only gets crazier and crazier as time goes on. Especially his late work, when he was physically ill. They were all diatribes. Also, lollin at the idea of me ever being a liberal. Starship Troopers was controversial (I don't know why), it wasn't crazy. Go straight from the Moon is a Harsh Mistress through To Sail Beyond the Sunset and you'll see what I'm talking about.</p> <p><a href="n/a">Dweezil</a></p>]]></description>
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		    <description><![CDATA[<p>@<a href="#c4787023">Dweezil</a>: Why the Heinlein hatred? Were you frightened by Starship Troopers as a young college liberal?</p> <p>Blackjack</p>]]></description>
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		    <description><![CDATA[<p>@<a href="#c4798270">Michael Belisle</a>: What can I say? He may not be an authority on knighthood, but if he says his ex-wife knew the man, I figure that's probably within his area of expertise.</p>
<p>The Mirror is a rag, but its retractions are frequently as spurious as its statements. I aught to know, as I have had some personal experience with that. Remember when the papers had to retract the whole "Jeffrey Archer and a hooker" story and it turned out to be true after all?</p> <p><a href="http://raincoaster.com">raincoaster</a></p>]]></description>
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		    <description><![CDATA[<p>The <a href="http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4161/is_19980201/ai_n14474888">Sunday Mirror article</a> reads like Jerry Falwell's <a href="http://medialibel.org/cases-conflicts/print/falwell.html">first time</a>. Coincidence?</p>
<p>(Disclaimer: I just walked in here and saw a <a href="http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?DeadMooseOnTheTable">dead moose on the table</a>. I haven't read any of his books, or even seen 2001 in its entirety. But I foolishly assumed yesterday that this had multiple sources backing it up. Nope: it's just the one article that cites <a href="http://ianhamet.wordpress.com/2008/03/18/clarke-slander-and-gross-epistemological-errors/">mysteriously missing tapes</a>.)</p> <p>Michael Belisle</p>]]></description>
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		    <description><![CDATA[<p>@<a href="#c4787439">raincoaster</a>: Lionel-mandrake says: <i>Rumours of his homosexuality (and possible pederasty) were the reason he was never knighted.</i></p>
<p>Umm, Sir Clarke was <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/765385.stm">knighted in 2000</a>. We can only assume that lionel is full of shit.</p>
<p>(Oh and later, <a href="http://gawker.com/369439/arthur-c-clarke-90-dies#c4762573">he continues</a>: <i>I always thought the charges were spurious.</i> What? So you just thought you'd reprint them without qualification to answer the question: "Why Sri Lanka"?)</p> <p>Michael Belisle</p>]]></description>
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		    <description><![CDATA[<p>Clarke lived in Sri Lanka for the very simple reason that it's one of the few spots on the face of the earth where it's possible to own land directly beneath a satellite in geostationary orbit.</p> <p>uhhhclem</p>]]></description>
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		    <description><![CDATA[<p>@<a href="#c4792192">j0e</a>: what? were are you pulling this crap...do you think they exhumed the body to preform a second burial of the guy to make it "seem" like he is recently deceased. your augment makes no sense.</p>
<p>I never ever read the guys work, all I am post is that once again, gawker, posts untrue liable on the net' and morons believe it as if it is legitement "News".</p>
<p>All that i know IS true is that 1. He is dead and 2. The allegations of him being a child molester were never proven but rather revoked because they were unfounded.</p> <p><a href="n/a">realist.com</a></p>]]></description>
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		    <description><![CDATA[<p>j0e - "It's still true"? And your proof for this would be what, exactly? I haven't seen anything in this thread that would come close to proof. Just baseless accusations from you, Dweezil, and other morons.</p> <p>DreadPirate</p>]]></description>
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		    <description><![CDATA[<p>Won't someone <i>please</i> think of the children! Thank god <a href="#c4787023">Dweezil</a> is here to remind us, and insult geeks, otaku, their mothers, Consumerist readers and the entire nation of Sri Lanka (admittedly, some are easier targets than others).</p> <p><a href="http://noisyballoonist.org">humorbot</a></p>]]></description>
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		    <description><![CDATA[<p>who cares if he was recently deceased? it's still true. the whole recently deceased thing is bogus anyway, that's how you end up rewriting history so the post-reagan generation thinks ronnie was a great president instead of a neofascist.</p>
<p>a child molester is a child molester, no matter how far into the future you travel.</p> <p><a href="http://www.joe.to">j0e</a></p>]]></description>
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		    <description><![CDATA[<p>@<a href="#c4790050">Dweezil</a>: The only reason you can think of to live on a tropical isle is boning its children?  You inhabit a small and impoverished world, my friend.</p>
<p>It seems rather important to you to believe that Clarke was a pedophile, even though the only evidence is that "everybody knows it."  As for me, I don't have any particular feelings about the man, pro or con; I  just have this nutty attachment to critical thinking.  You know, believing things when there's actual evidence.  But don't mind me; I realize that my attitude is outmoded.</p> <p>tootingbec</p>]]></description>
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		    <description><![CDATA[<P>@<A href="http://valleywag.com/369964/best-buys-geek-squad-celebrates-death-of-noted-pedophile-arthur-c-clarke-tonight#c4785186">mgiampapa</A>: <BR>Did you just mention Gawker and journalistic integrity in the same sentence? You are new around here, aren't you?</P>
<P>@<A href="http://valleywag.com/369964/best-buys-geek-squad-celebrates-death-of-noted-pedophile-arthur-c-clarke-tonight#c4786152">pattisod</A>: <BR>Arthur C Clarke moved to Sri Lanka (then Ceylon) in 1956.</P>
<P>He was in his 30s back then. He wasn't rich and he wasn't old.</P>
<P>You would be surprised to know that people move to foreign countries for all sorts of reasons that don't include sex with underage boys.</P> <p>Mariallena</p>]]></description>
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		    <description><![CDATA[<p>@<a href="#c4787902">Tallanvor</a>: He fucked kids, the end. Will you people go back to Consumerist already and complain about nice old men asking to see your receipts and OH GOD A BIG BOX TO SHIP A SMALL ITEM?</p> <p><a href="n/a">Dweezil</a></p>]]></description>
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		    <description><![CDATA[<p>Sweet! Owen's buying drinks tomorrow!</p> <p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/snarkmedia">matto</a></p>]]></description>
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		    <description><![CDATA[<p>Bad form, calling him a pedophile when the investigation determined the claims were unfounded and the original paper that published them printed a retraction.</p>
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		    <description><![CDATA[<p>@<a href="#c4787254">realist.com</a>: I'm going to take a guess here and say it involved him teaching the kid what "jizz jizz in you" means.</p> <p><a href="n/a">Dweezil</a></p>]]></description>
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		    <description><![CDATA[<p>@<a href="#c4787231">Dweezil</a>: no idea, do you?</p> <p>realist.com</p>]]></description>
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		    <description><![CDATA[<p>wow! i'm absolutely disgusted by this post.<br>
Unless there is public apology posted for these blatant LIES, i'm voting with my wallet by never visiting Valleywag again and blocking all banner ads on Consumerist.</p> <p>Mxx</p>]]></description>
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		    <description><![CDATA[<p>@<a href="#c4787159">doctor_cos</a>: I love how all you freakish little nerds come out of your hiding places (rooms in your mothers house with anime wallscrolls and 40k figurines laid about, no doubt) whenever someone desecrates one of your holy nerd lords. The guy lived, in Sri Lanka for fucks sake, with a young boy for years. What the fuck do you retards think he was doing?</p> <p><a href="n/a">Dweezil</a></p>]]></description>
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		    <description><![CDATA[<p>oh btw memorializing and celebrating are totally not the same thing</p> <p>realist.com</p>]]></description>
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		    <description><![CDATA[<p>you know I was watching the BBC and they were doing a huge memorial thing too...does that make them evil?</p>
<p>Arthur C. Clarke was a great author, and no allegations were ever proven true. You know a lot of great people in history were supposed child molesters....this article is pure garbage just blindly trying to make the geek squad look bad</p>
<p>shame on you valleywag.</p> <p>realist.com</p>]]></description>
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		    <description><![CDATA[<p>How nice that people can hide behind their keyboards and post bullshit like this with impunity.<br>
Did any of you shit-for-brains <b>KNOW</b> any actual proven <b>FACTS?</b><br>
I didn't think so.  Sit down and shut the fuck up.  When you have written half of the books or gotten half the recognition, then <b>MAYBE</b> your pissy opinions will amount to a speck of shit.</p> <p>doctor_cos</p>]]></description>
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		    <description><![CDATA[<p>This article is lame in the extreme. Recycling a 20+ year old disproven allegation of the recently dead? Pathetic! And @Raincoaster, you are actually taking the word of a random person on a web site about this? That is hardly proof of anything.</p> <p>DreadPirate</p>]]></description>
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		    <description><![CDATA[<p>@<a href="#c4784696">Landru</a>: Yeah, the big three are Heinlein, Asimov and Clarke. Heinlein was literally a basket case (although in my opinion The Moon is a Harsh Mistress is the best book written by any of them, so he wins) and I have no doubt Clarke was piddling kids. Who the fuck goes to Sri Lanka if it's not to have sex with kids? It's like paying for a plane ticket and a trip to a hotel on the beach in Hawaii so you can use their WiFi connection.</p> <p><a href="n/a">Dweezil</a></p>]]></description>
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		    <description><![CDATA[<p>I don't get all the "he was cleared of the charges" outrage, given that he was never actually <i>charged</i> with anything. Might this help clear some things up:<br>
<a href="http://gawker.com/369439/arthur-c-clarke-90-dies#c4761913">[gawker.com]</a></p> <p><a href="http://raincoaster.com">raincoaster</a></p>]]></description>
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		    <description><![CDATA[<p>This story deserves a front page, top banner header retraction. Not some small note at the bottom of the article, or a deletion of the article. This site needs to apologize to Mr. Clarke's family and the readers for this crap.</p>
<p>You can't go around labeling people pedophiles with no proof, especially when newspapers have been forced to retract this nonsense in the past.</p> <p>AmericaTheBrave</p>]]></description>
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		    <description><![CDATA[<p>By the way, the headline is also misleading. Geek Squad is hardly "celebrating" his death -- they are commemorating it.</p> <p>icruise</p>]]></description>
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		    <description><![CDATA[<p>This was apparently supposed to be a dig at the Geek Squad for its hypocrisy (rooting out child porn on its customers computers while celebrating a supposed pedophile on the other). But even if these pedophilia charges are true, they're hardly so widely known that someone should be mocked for not knowing about them. I'm a pretty big sci-fi fan and would never have made this connection. There may be a lot of reasons to make fun of the Geek Squad, but this isn't one of them, and it's outside of the boundaries of good taste to use a man's recent death to do so.</p> <p>icruise</p>]]></description>
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		    <description><![CDATA[<p>@<a href="#c4785662">wolfzero</a>: Yeah, those charges were cleared, owen.</p> <p><a href="http://gizmodo.com">Brian Lam</a></p>]]></description>
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		    <description><![CDATA[<p>Ooh, Valleywag. Speaking truth to power. You scions of muckraking hard-nosed journalism. Did Meghan Asha stay in tonight?</p> <p><a href="http://noisyballoonist.org">humorbot</a></p>]]></description>
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		    <description><![CDATA[<p>This is shocking! A clear lapse in journalistic credibility!</p>
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		    <description><![CDATA[<P>Mike Jackson was innocent too. He was never convicted and there was no evidence. As for Clarke retiring in a region that sells children into the sex industry does'nt suggest that he was averse to the practice. Whatever no one will ever no either way. I hear the beaches and food are great but that's not the reason old rich men go there.</P> <p>pattisod</p>]]></description>
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		    <description><![CDATA[<p>@<a href="#c4785648">joebob2</a>: Well known "in the community"?  Which community is that?</p>
<p>It would be fairer to say, wouldn't it, that rumors of Clarke's pedophilia have been around for a long time.  Okay, why are they around?  Because they're true, or because they're plausible and amusing?</p>
<p>If they're true, why not add some value by posting some evidence?  The Google search you tried to post, for the age of consent in Sri Lanka, could only convince someone of the accusations' plausibility, not their truth.</p>
<p>Incidentally, <a href="http://www.interpol.int/Public/Children/SexualAbuse/NationalLaws/csaSriLanka.asp">Interpol reports</a> that the age of consent in Sri Lanka has been 16 since 1998.  Apparently, it was 12 before that.  Yuck.  But still not enough, in and of itself, to sustain the accusation of pedophilia.  Somebody might well have other reasons for living in Sri Lanka.  Like the beaches, or the food, or being Sri Lankan.</p> <p>tootingbec</p>]]></description>
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		    <description><![CDATA[<p>First tubgirl on Kotaku and now this? Agreeing with wolfzero, retract posting and issue and apology.</p> <p>nvc123</p>]]></description>
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		    <description><![CDATA[<p>I'm a little outraged by this.  This article is grossly incorrect.  Regardless of any accusations, Mr. Clarke is a noted science fiction author who has made a great contribution to the genre, and should not be slandered like this, especially in the wake of passing.  It seems the only reason this is worth noting is because the Geek Squad is honoring him, and the logic goes that nothing they do can possibly be right.</p>
<p>Please remove this from the site.</p> <p>Rob Phelps</p>]]></description>
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		    <description><![CDATA[<p>The noted pedophile part is well known in the community.</p>
<p>Of course the Sri Lankan authorities don't care - the age of concent is 13 there.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=age+of+concent+sri+lanka">[www.google.com]</a></p> <p>joebob2</p>]]></description>
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		    <description><![CDATA[<P>WTF "noted pedophile"? I'd never heard that, and was quite taken aback to see it. Seriously, this needs to be corrected, and soon.</P> <p><a href="http://www.veekachu.com">VeeKaChu</a></p>]]></description>
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		    <description><![CDATA[<P>Lame, Owen. He's hardly noted. He was cleared of all charges years ago (BBC link not working, here is the Google cache of it):</P>
<P><A href="http://209.85.173.104/search?q=cache:qBbq7drAtRkJ:news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/s/w_asia/74938.stm+Sci-fi+novelist+cleared+of+sex+charges.&amp;hl=en&amp;ct=clnk&amp;cd=1&amp;gl=us">[209.85.173.104]</A></P>
<P>Arthur C Clarke was my hero. I've read nearly all of his books.</P> <p>OaklandTechie</p>]]></description>
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		    <description><![CDATA[<p>Apparently Gawker has no journalistic integrity. The claims were denied and the Mirror issues a retraction. Any amount of fact checking shows this.</p>
<p>Hell you can find the reference on his own Wikipedia entry. See footnote 22, <a href="http://www.scifi.com/sfw/issue63/news.html">[www.scifi.com]</a></p>
<p>The author of this story should be ashamed and apologize.</p> <p>mgiampapa</p>]]></description>
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		    <description><![CDATA[<p>That article is completely misleading, and I'm disgusted that Consumerist would post it without bothering to fact-check a piece calling someone a pedophile. Those statements were indeed published (incorrectly) by the Sunday Mirror, but Sri Lankan authorities investigated the matter and found the claims to be totally baseless, which forced the Mirror to print a retraction of their claims.<br>
I can't find an original copy of the retraction, but here is an Australian newspaper mentioning it.<br>
<a href="http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0">[www.news.com.au]</a>,22049,23401032-5016574,00.html</p>
<p>For a website that prides itself on unveiling the lies of big companies, I'm severely disappointed that Consumerist would call one of the greatest authors of our time  Pedophile without doing any research on the subject. <br>
Shame on you.</p> <p>azflyboy</p>]]></description>
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		    <description><![CDATA[<p>I'm going to take this one step further than nobuggin did.  Hey, Mr. Thomas, unless your sources are better than the <a href="http://archives.tcm.ie/irishexaminer/1998/08/13/fhead.htm">Irish Times (scroll about halfway down the page)</a>, you've just committed character assassination of the recently dead.  I realize that that is the Gawker Media formula, but it's repellent nevertheless.</p> <p>tootingbec</p>]]></description>
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		    <description><![CDATA[<p>This is the first I've heard of his alleged paedophilia or any sympathy of the kind. I just read his Wikipedia article, and there is no mention of any such thing. A link to the source would be greatly appreciated. Anyways, their prim intent [besides pure $$$] is to celebrate his artistic legacy, which is certainly one worth celebrating.</p> <p><a href="http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=727467130">Bay State Darren</a></p>]]></description>
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		    <description><![CDATA[<P>I believe the british newspapers who wrote the articles stating he liked them really young and later was cleared of all charges and the papers had to apologize adn retract the story. Unless of course you're getting your info from some other reference material I'm not privy too...</P>
<P>Quote from wiki (I know is far from perfect), "On 26 May 2000 he was made a Knight Bachelor[18] "for services to literature" at a ceremony in Colombo.[19] The award of a knighthood had been announced in the 1998 New Year Honours,[20] but investiture of the award had been delayed, at Clarke's request, because of an accusation, by the British tabloid The Sunday Mirror, of paedophilia, which was, however, found to be baseless by Sri Lankan police and retracted by the paper soon after.[21][22][23][24][25][26]"</P> <p>rharvier</p>]]></description>
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		    <description><![CDATA[<P>I'm a little confused here. This article presents this quotation as fact, but I've read the Clarke adamantly denied ever making it any other statements that the Mirror published, and that the Mirror actually published a retraction later regarding the interview. Is there a good source for clearing this up?</P> <p>nobuggin</p>]]></description>
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		    <description><![CDATA[<p>What they say about Clarke is true, and the parts of him that are worth celebrating are very much so. That there are other parts, and those worthy of condemnation is also true, but pick your time and place. Did you have the balls to say this while he was alive?</p> <p><a href="http://raincoaster.com">raincoaster</a></p>]]></description>
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		    <description><![CDATA[<p>I have read Clarke's books for years and hadn't heard that.  I have wondered what the hell he was doing in Sri Lanka, though.<br>
@<a href="#c4782378">Dweezil</a>: Is the other of the "Big Three" Heinlein?  Cause he was batshit.</p> <p><a href="n/a">Landru</a></p>]]></description>
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		    <description><![CDATA[<p>Asimov was the only relatively sane member of the "Big Three." I think Jackson is onto something and that this is a way for them to get more porn off their customers computers.</p> <p><a href="n/a">Dweezil</a></p>]]></description>
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		    <description><![CDATA[<p>I have a feeling the Geek Squad have seen (and possibly copied, maybe even reported) their share of child porn over the years.</p> <p><a href="http://www.jacksonwest.com/">Jackson West</a></p>]]></description>
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		    <description><![CDATA[<p>Um, you want to provide any references for such a serious allegation?  Sri Lankan police cleared Clarke of any wrong-doing 10 years ago: <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/s/w_asia/74938.stm">[news.bbc.co.uk]</a></p> <p>lumpmoose</p>]]></description>
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		    <description><![CDATA[<P>Geek Squad has always tried to be as dorky as possible.. its their brand.</P> <p><a href="http://">Whocares</a></p>]]></description>
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