Editing Holocaust denial (section)

===Bradley Smith and the CODOH===
In 1987, Bradley R. Smith, a former media director of the Institute for Historical Review,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.axt.org.uk/antisem/archive/archive2/usa/usa.htm|title=United States of America|date=1998|work=axt.org.uk|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080620114155/http://www.axt.org.uk/antisem/archive/archive2/usa/usa.htm|archive-date=June 20, 2008}}</ref> founded the Committee for Open Debate on the Holocaust (CODOH).<ref>[http://www.adl.org/poisoning_web/codoh.asp "Poisoning the Web&nbsp;– Committee for Open Debate on the Holocaust."] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130115233738/http://www.adl.org/poisoning_web/codoh.asp |date=January 15, 2013 }} ''[[Anti-Defamation League|ADL]]''. 2001. April 24, 2008.</ref> In the United States, CODOH has repeatedly attempted to place advertisements questioning whether the Holocaust happened, especially in college campus newspapers.<ref>[http://www.adl.org/holocaust/bradley_smith.asp "Bradley Smith and the Committee for Open Debate on the Holocaust: The New College Try".] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130115233745/http://www.adl.org/holocaust/bradley_smith.asp |date=January 15, 2013 }} ''[[Anti-Defamation League|ADL]]''. 2001. April 24, 2008.</ref>

Bradley Smith took his message to college students—with little success. Smith referred to his tactics as the CODOH campus project. He said, "I don't want to spend time with adults anymore, I want to go to students. They are superficial. They are empty vessels to be filled." "What I wanted to do was I wanted to set forth three or four ideas that students might be interested in, that might cause them to think about things or to have questions about things. And I wanted to make it as simple as possible, and to set it up in a way that could not really be debated."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.adl.org/learn/ext_us/smith_codoh/words.asp?LEARN_Cat=Extremism&LEARN_SubCat=Extremism_in_America&xpicked=2&item=10 |title=Bradley Smith, Holocaust Denial, Committee for Open Debate on the Holocaust – Extremism in America |publisher=[[Anti-Defamation League]] |access-date=March 26, 2013 |archive-date=January 15, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130115233646/http://www.adl.org/learn/ext_us/smith_codoh/words.asp?LEARN_Cat=Extremism&LEARN_SubCat=Extremism_in_America&xpicked=2&item=10 |url-status=live}}</ref> Holocaust deniers have placed "Full page advertisements in college and university newspapers, including those of [[Brandeis University]], [[Boston College]], [[Pennsylvania State University]], and [[Queens College]]. Some of these ads arguing that the Holocaust never happened ran without comment; others generated op-ed pieces by professors and students".<ref>{{cite book |last=Shermar |first=Michael |author2=Alex Grobman |title=Denying History: Who Says the Holocaust Never Happened and Why Do They Say It? |publisher=[[University of California Press]] |year=2000 |isbn=978-0-520-21612-9 |title-link=Denying History: Who Says the Holocaust Never Happened and Why Do They Say It?}}</ref> On September 8, 2009, student newspaper ''[[The Harvard Crimson]]'' ran a paid ad from Bradley R Smith. It was quickly criticized, and the editor issued an apology, saying publishing the ad was a mistake.<ref>{{Cite news |url=http://edition.cnn.com/2009/US/09/09/massachusetts.harvard.holocaust/index.html |title=Harvard Crimson says Holocaust denial ad published by accident |last=Buxbaum |first=Evan |date=September 10, 2009 |work=[[CNN]] |access-date=September 10, 2009 |archive-date=May 12, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190512200839/http://edition.cnn.com/2009/US/09/09/massachusetts.harvard.holocaust/index.html |url-status=live}}</ref><!-- For the whole paragraph as it falls under [[Wikipedia: Biographies of living persons]]-->