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Legal thuggery: A favored technique by disinformation merchants to silence critics

Legal thuggery vs. Lady Justice

What do Didier Raoult, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., and Portuguese quacks have in common? They’re using legal thuggery to silence criticism.

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Cancer Medicine Naturopathy Pseudoscience Quackery

Defend Britt Hermes from a naturopathic cancer quack trying to silence her through legal thuggery

Britt Hermes
Britt Hermes

One of the favorite tactics of cranks and quacks to silence criticism from bloggers is to threaten to sue for libel. Ex-naturopath turned science advocate Britt Hermes is currently living this reality, as a naturopathic cancer quack is currently suing her for libel in Germany. Given that Britt is a graduate student in evolutionary biology her means are quite modest and as is no doubt the intent, just defending this lawsuit could ruin her and her husband financially. Fortunately, you can help help her, and I urge you to do so.

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Complementary and alternative medicine Medicine Quackery Skepticism/critical thinking

Mike Adams launches a sustained campaign of lies against a friend of the blog

Several of you have noticed that a certain friend of the blog has been under attack from one of the quackiest of Internet quacks out there. Here is his response. The paranoia and stupidity are black hole level density. (Yes, instead of posting the whole thing, I’ve simply posted a link to our friend’s discussion […]

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I am Spartacus! or: Orac applies some Insolence to a rather confused antivaccine blogger

Although I'm flattered that an antiavccine blogger seems to think Orac and Skeptical Raptor are one in the same, I assure you they are not. Blinky lights and green scales do not go well together. Yes, I know velociraptors probably had feathers, but go with the joke please. It's so much cooler that way. In any event, for those of you not familiar with Orac's namesake, he's the clear box that everyone's standing around on the right, a blinky box that was the most powerful computer in the universe in a 1970s British SF show.

I’ve used my current pseudonym since at least the late 1990s, first on Usenet and then on the first incarnation of this blog. Not surprisingly in retrospect (although it surprised me at the time), people who didn’t like me began trying back in the 1990s to “unmask” me. It began with Holocaust deniers. No, I’m […]

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The “Health Ranger” Mike Adams engages in legal thuggery against a critic

I hadn’t really planned on writing again about everyone’s favorite conspiracy theorist and promoter of quackery, Mike Adams, at least not so soon after the last time I did it, which was only last week after Adams appeared on Dr. Oz’s daytime television show to push his “laboratory.” Adams, as you might recall, goes by […]