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De Wikis en Educación

If you want to see the whole letter threatening Le Canard Noir (and you really should read the whole thing; it's hilarious), it's here. One amusing aspect of the letter is that "Professor Dr." Obi hired an essay writer in the name of Tanja Suessenbach rather than a solicitor to write up the threat. What's not so funny is how fast Le Canard Noir's ISP caved in response to this.

I rarely ask my readers to do anything except to read my blog and comment, but I'm asking now, once again two things:

   Click on the RCAM links above multiple times. I'm betting it'll get Professor Joseph Chikelue Obi attention.

   Take the text of Le Canard Noir's two posts about Professor Dr. Joseph Chikelue Obi and republish it on your own blog verbatim, preferably with a sarcastic introduction about how much you value free speech and detest people who use abusive legal threats to try to stifle legitimate criticism  people like Professor Dr. Joseph Chikelue Obi

With a little luck, we can have the same sort of results as we did with the Society of Homeopaths, where the first few pages show blogs that reposted Le Canard Noir's criticism of the Society. This will likely tick off Professor Dr. Joseph Chikelue Obi to no end, as Le Canard Noir speculates:

  Professor Joseph Obi has done a rather fantastic job of covering the web in pages written by himself and usually referring to himself in the third person. My pages were one of the few to have enough google juice to appear above the noise. Undoubtedly this has annoyed him. It is possible that this is just attention seeking, but it does rather highlight the problem of regulating alternative medicine.

Indeed it has, but spreading Le Canard Noir's articles far and wide over the blogosphere, so that they start showing up on the first page of Google searches of Obi's name would be a most fitting response to such an obvious attempt at intimidating a blogger into silence with vacuous legal threats. Be it William P. O'Neill e mailing vacuous legal threats to my chairman for merely linking to his nemesis Pete Bowditch or the Society of Homeopaths or Mr. Joseph Obi issuing legal threats to Le Canard Noir, why is it that "alternative" medicine practitioners have such a problem with free speech? Why is it that so many of them try to muzzle any perceived criticism (or, in the case of Mr. O'Neill, a single instance of praise for someone who criticizes him regularly) with threats to a blogger's anonymity and/or legal threats.