apthorpe's Journal

Jumping on the Anti-Woo Bandwagon

I’d like to introduce you to Dr. Joseph Chikelue Obi. You would think that ‘Dr’ stood for ‘doctor’, but as Dave Barry has said, Ph.D.s are as common as milkweed pollen. In this case, I believe it stands for Douchebag Royale, but I’m not familiar with the UK’s system of honorifics so you should take this as a statement of opinion, not of fact (or defamation…)

No, Dr. Obi is not offering you half of a $50 million trust he’s trying to … release … to the next of kin of General Professor Dr. Sani Abacha, BPOE, RN, Esq. – he’s siccing faux barristers on a UK blogger for having the temerity to call the good Dr. a quack for promoting some woo or other under the auspices of “Nutritional Immunomodulation.” Now a respectable man of the cloth, er, stethoscope would cite controlled double-blind studies from the applicable peer-reviewed scientific or medical journals showing the efficacy of his therapies. I mean, if someone is saying that what you are hawking is bunk, the easiest way to shut them down in the eyes of reasonable people is to wheel out the facts that support your case and put the ball back in your critic’s court.

In this case, no, the answer is to fire off a creative writing project to a risk-averse ISP and let the now-silenced critic try to convince his ISP (who only wants non-controversial customers who pay their bills) that the “legal” complaint is no more valid than a “digestive excursion.”

So in the fight for a sane internet where critics of baseless therapies are protected from grifters, charlatans, and other traveling circus folk, I present the articles removed from The Quackometer in their entirety.

Make up your own mind.

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