In the interests of free expression and free press, I am jumping on the bandwagon to publicize the quashing of a fellow blogger’s criticism of a homeopathic “doctor,” Joseph Chikelue Obi.
Le Canard Noir, a skeptic who runs the Quackometer blog, wrote a couple of articles about Obi, a self-styled expert in all things medical, in which the Black Duck implies that Obi is full of shit. Obi then promptly threatened the blogger with a libel suit, and the blogger’s web host forced Le Canard Noir to pull the offending posts. Libel laws there favor the complainant, not the defendant, so a libel suit would have expensive and perhaps damaging to the blogger and the web host.
Fellow bloggers are coming to Le Canard’s assistance and reprinting his articles on their sites, partly to stick it to Obi but mostly to print the truth. So-called medical practitioners like Obi are frauds trying to hide their medical quackery (and thriving businesses) behind the screen of libel laws. So, these posts may seem like they are out of context here, but I am trying to serve the higher good by reprinting them verbatim.
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Right Royal College of Pompous Quackery – Dublin, Thursday, September 28, 2006
I had to share this with you. Following on from my recent Quack Word ‘Doctor’ blog, I came across the Royal College of Alternative Medicine (RCAM) , a Dublin based – well, I’m not sure quite what it is…
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