The story about Doctor's Data suing Quackwatch is growing. Today it was on the NESS feed, and the following unbelievable request on the part of the Doctor's Data charlatans

WHEREFORE, DOCTOR’S DATA, INC., Plaintiff, prays that this court enter an order granting Doctor’s Data a permanent injunction; direct them to remove or delete all disparaging statements and remarks pertaining to Doctor’s Data from these or any web sites under their control; and prohibit them from publishing these or any other or additional such remarks on blogs, [...]

From Happy Jihad's House of Pancakes
http://hjhop.blogspot.com/2010/07/doctors-data-jihad-against-public.html
7/6/2010 10:23:00 PM
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Here we go again. Another purveyor of a questionable medical therapy, when criticized, rather than refute the criticisms with evidence, attempts to silence its critic with legal action. Via Orac, read how Doctor’s Data ignored Stephen Barrett’s explanation of How...

From Skeptico
http://skeptico.blogs.com/skeptico/2010/07/doctors-data-sues-quackwatch.html
7/6/2010 6:10:58 AM
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On June 18th, 2010, Doctor's Data, an organisation which conducts fraudulent medical tests on behalf of charlatans and crooks, filed suit against Dr Stephen Barrett of Quackwatch, the National Council Against Health Fraud, Inc., Quackwatch, Inc., and Cons...

From The Millenium Project
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7/5/2010 12:24:05 AM
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Remember Doctors Data? It's the highly dubious medical laboratory that Trine Tsouderos exposed in her series on the quackery that is the "autism biomed" movement. A couple of weeks ago, Doctors Data also decided to launch what appears to be frivolous lawsuit against the creator and maintainer of the Quackwatch website, Steve Barrett; i.e. a SLAPP lawsuit.

Apparently unsatisfied with its legal thuggery against Steve Barrett, Doctors Data has apparently decided to plumb new depths by using new media to threaten other bloggers. This time around, Doctors Data has actually Tweeted a cease and desist threat against blogger Liz Ditz. Here's the Tweet:

@lizditz Cease and desist libelling us or we will sue you. http://tinyurl.com/docsdata. Doctor's Data [...]

From Respectful Insolence
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7/14/2010 12:30:13 AM
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A few weeks ago I posted an article about bogus diagnostic tests. I cited Doctor’s Data, Inc. (DDI), as “a company with a long history of dubious offerings.” I also wrote: You can’t help but have noticed that many of the links in this post are to articles on Quackwatch. That’s because the site is chock full [...]

From Science-Based Medicine
http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/?p=5983
7/6/2010 7:26:47 AM
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Quackwatch, I'm sure you know, is an evidence-based, skeptical website that challenges questionable medical claims. Well, chelation assholes Doctor's Data have decided to open a can of whoop-ass in trying to silence Quackwatch, filing suit against Stephen Barret, the physician who runs the website in the public-interest.

I'm asking both of my readers to contribute $10 to the Quackwatch defense fund. I'm also asking you to write on your own blogs about this and include Doctor's Data in your tags, linking the phrase to Quackwatch's article, "Doctor's Data

From Happy Jihad's House of Pancakes
http://hjhop.blogspot.com/2010/07/doctors-data-litigious-fuckwits-suing.html
7/5/2010 3:58:00 AM
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Dr. Stephen Barrett has been a longtime force for good with his website Quackwatch. If there’s alternative medicine or pseudoscientific theories that need debunking, he’s always been on top of it. I remember first coming across it nearly a decade ago and it’s the first place I go to when I want to learn more [...]

From Friendly Atheist by @hemantsblog
http://friendlyatheist.com/2010/07/03/science-defender-gets-sued-by-doctors-data/
7/4/2010 8:00:27 AM
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This is a repost of the article on sciencebasedmedicine.org by Kimball Atwood:

A few weeks ago I posted an article about bogus diagnostic tests. I cited Doctor’s Data, Inc. (DDI), as “a company with a long history of dubious offerings.” I also wrote:

You can’t help but have noticed that many of the links in this post are to articles on Quackwatch. That’s because the site is chock full of useful information about bogus tests, far more than can be found elsewhere. There you will find a more comprehensive

From Small Town Skepticism
http://sarniaskeptic.blogspot.com/2010/07/sciencebasedmedicineorg-doctors-data.html
7/13/2010 6:30:00 AM
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I don't envy Stephen Barrett at all, but this is going to be good. Barrett is the doctor behind QuackWatch a wonderful resource for exposing bogus medical claims. Among the many subjects of common charlatanry he's taken apart, one is the use of invalid tests to justify useless treatments, like chelation therapy, which is a goldmine for quacks. Do the doctory thing of drawing a little blood while wearing a white lab coat, send it off to a 'lab' that does a few tests and sends back a very official looking mass of data, and then the quack gazes into it and announces that you need powdered newts' eyes, or whatever nostrum he's peddling that day.

Barrett explained in thorough detail how the reports of one such 'lab', called "Doctor's Data", were jiggered to [...]

From Pharyngula
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7/5/2010 12:18:40 AM
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Read the full update at Respectful Insolence. The favored laboratory of anti-vaccine practitioners and the “autism biomed” movement, a commercial laboratory known as Doctor’s Data is suing Steve Barrett, the man who maintains the excellent resource Quackwatch, for criticism Dr. Barrett leveled against it, criticism that Doctor’s Data richly deserved (in my opinion, of course). Not [...]

From Skeptic Money
http://www.skepticmoney.com/web-site-quackwatch-sued-by-quack/
7/8/2010 1:39:33 AM
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The details are covered very well by Orac, who says:

The favored laboratory of anti-vaccine practitioners and the “autism biomed” movement, a commercial laboratory known as Doctor’s Data is suing Steve Barrett, the man who maintains the excellent resource Quackwatch, for criticism Dr. Barrett leveled against it, criticism that Doctor’s Data richly deserved (in my opinion, of course).

… Keep Reading...

From ICBS Everywhere
http://icbseverywhere.com/blog/2010/06/quackwatcher-dr-steven-barrett-needs-y/
7/1/2010 2:20:57 AM
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After the events of last week, I'm a bit sensitive when it comes to matters like the one I'm about to discuss. Having the anti-vaccine cranks over at the Age of Autism weblog trying to get me fired over my blogging has a tendency to do that to me. (The details are out there if you haven't heard of it; I will say nothing more of it here.) In any case, if there's anything the events of last week drove home to me, it's that a sina qua non of anti-science cranks like the leaders of the anti-vaccine movement is that, when faced with serious scientific criticism, their preferred reaction is not to respond to that criticism with refutations based on science. They can't. Instead, their all too frequent response is to try to shut down criticism. We've seen it again and again, and I've discussed it many times on this blog.

Unfortunately, it's happening again. The favored laboratory of anti-vaccine practitioners and the "autism biomed" movement, a commercial laboratory known as [...]

From Respectful Insolence
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/scienceblogs/insolence/~3/o4S27WNi350/more_legal_thuggery.php
7/1/2010 12:00:00 AM
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The details are covered very well by Orac, who says:

The favored laboratory of anti-vaccine practitioners and the “autism biomed” movement, a commercial laboratory known as Doctor’s Data is suing Steve Barrett, the man who maintains the excellent resource Quackwatch, for criticism Dr. Barrett leveled against it, criticism that Doctor’s Data richly deserved (in my opinion, of course).

Fighting these battles is extremely expensive and no legal defense funds exist for grassroots activists. Please blog about this to raise awareness and donate what you can to… read more of this...

From Woo Fighters
http://woofighters.org/2010/06/quackwatcher-dr-steve-barret-is-under-attack/
7/1/2010 2:28:27 AM
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Early in the prolonged economic crisis a patient who had lost his factory job came to see me. He no longer had insurance, but he had plenty of health problems. Our office normally doesn't see uninsured patients (we simply can't afford to) but from time to time we make exceptions. I changed his prescriptions to the cheapest possible effective medications and gave him an online resource for the meds that did not have inexpensive alternatives. I referred him to a clinic that has the resources to care for the uninsured and that may be able to help him get his diabetic supplies.

By doing this, I shifted the cost of this man's care from my small office to a larger entity. But the money for his care still must come from somewhere. It's possible that his new clinic may get "disproportionate share (DISH)" dollars from the federal government if they care for many uninsured patients, but it's also likely that the clinic will never [...]

From White Coat Underground
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3/22/2010 1:21:01 AM
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Sending lawyers to do the work of science is never a good idea. This goes beyond or standard freedom of speech, it targets the most basic principles of science: freedom of discussion and freedom to criticize ideas.
As always, when people who peddle woo-woo don't have real arguments, they send lawyers to try to intimidate those who expose them.
Time to spread the news about a company called Doctor's Data, Inc (DDI), which is engaged in dubious practices and is suing Quakwatch maintainer Steve Barret for exposing them.

More info from Orac:

Unfortunately, it's happening again. The favored laboratory of anti-vaccine practitioners and the "autism biomed" movement, a commercial laboratory known as Doctor's Data is suing Steve Barrett, the man who maintains the excellent resource Quackwatch, for [...]

From Pete's Wicked Blog
http://blog.linuxblast.com/2010/06/legal-trouble-again-spreading-news.html
6/30/2010 11:56:00 PM
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Sam Homola recently posted an article at Science-Based Medicine where he describes his attempts to remove pseudoscience (i.e. subluxations) from chiropractic so as to provide treatments that provide legitimate effective treatment for back pain. It can be hoped that Homola succeeds but he has been at this since the early 1960s and progress has been [...] Related posts:

1. Chiropractic – Bogus!
2. The shaky foundations of Chiropractic
3. Damning article on Doctor’s Data and Bogus Tests

From Matharu's Rants and Raves
http://www.metalvortex.com/blog/2011/12/30/729.html
12/31/2011 7:05:28 AM
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This (http://www.bolenreport.com/feature_articles/Doctor%27s-Data-v-Barrett/novellahumiliation.htm)...

From JREF Forum
http://forums.randi.org/showthread.php?t=211651&goto=newpost
6/14/2011 3:22:24 PM
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Bunch of stuff from The Quackometer which I’ve only just got round to read. 1. The MHRA is not an effective organisation. Far from it: MHRA accused of “clothing naked quackery” http://www.quackometer.net/blog/2011/09/mhra-accused-of-clothing-naked-quackery.html 2. Misled graduates in career hurdle: McTimoney Chiropractic College in Deep Trouble http://www.quackometer.net/blog/2011/10/mctimoney-chiropractic-college-in-deep-trouble.html 3. The ASA struggles with clamping down on homeopathic advertising [...] Related posts:

1. Damning article on Doctor’s Data and Bogus Tests
2. Quacks Starter Pack!

3. From Matharu's Rants and Raves
   http://www.metalvortex.com/blog/2011/10/14/662.html
   10/15/2011 6:48:01 AM
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Doctors' Data centre involved in testing for elevated mercury levels in patients (should that be...

From JREF Forum
http://forums.randi.org/showthread.php?t=179502&goto=newpost
7/2/2010 4:05:45 PM
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This week in The Lawyer, Robert Dougans and David Allen Green wrote about the emerging phenomenon of ‘wiki litigation’ where there is large scale scrutiny and participation in legal proceedings using the web as a shared medium. They used the example of the British Chiropractic Association’s libel case against science writer Simon Singh. This [...]

Related posts:

1. The Breakspear Hospital and Antigen Vaccines Let’s jump off the deep end again with the Breakspear Hospital. Previously, we saw Dr Jean Monro using unproven allergy tests with highly questionable electromagnetic ‘therapies’ to treat food allergies....

2. From The Quackometer
   http://www.quackometer.net/blog/2010/07/doctors-data-bogus-tests.html
   7/8/2010 8:13:00 AM
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Orac has the story of the "favored laboratory of anti-vaccine practitioners and the 'autism biomed' movement, a commercial laboratory known as Doctor's Data," is suing Steve Barrett, who maintains the excellent resource Quackwatch.

I have the Complaint in Word format and OCRed pdf format (but that's 14 MB and is hard to email). Anyone [...]

From Thoughts in a Haystack
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ThoughtsInAHaystack/~3/ArLynx5X_1o/this-could-take-awhile.html
7/1/2010 2:08:00 PM
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Sending lawyers to do the work of science is never a good idea. This goes beyond or standard freedom of speech, it targets the most basic principles of science: freedom of discussion and freedom to criticize ideas.
As always, when people who peddle woo-woo don't have real arguments, they send lawyers to try to intimidate those who expose them.
Time to spread the news about a company called Doctor's Data, Inc (DDI), which is engaged in dubious practices and is suing Quakwatch maintainer Steve Barret for exposing them.

More info from Orac:

Unfortunately, it's happening again. The favored laboratory of anti-vaccine practitioners and the "autism biomed" movement, a commercial laboratory known as Doctor's Data is suing Steve Barrett, the man who maintains the excellent resource Quackwatch, for [...]

From Pete's Wicked Blog
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/PetesWickedBlog/~3/FxRH1Mndnao/legal-trouble-again-spreading-news.html
6/30/2010 11:56:00 PM
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Dear all,

I am in the need for a doctor to try to fix my back pain due to a herniated disk, but I am skeptical on the methods. This is an area where a lot of nonsense thrive, and I don't want to put myself in the hands of a humbug.

My question to you is: how can I identify a good professional from a crook ? I know the basics: chiropractors, acupuncturists, homeopaths, but when it comes to such specialized treatment, do you have any hint on how to identify someone that is not selling BS, but the most recent, statistically relevant data ?

Thanks

From Skeptic's Subreddit
http://www.reddit.com/r/skeptic/comments/kimqm/checking_out_a_good_doctor_for_back_pain/
9/17/2011 11:13:33 PM
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Patrick Timothy Bolen, spokesturd for cancer quacks, patient-molesting dentists, insurance cheats and other fine citizens of alternative medicine world has recently been trying to climb onto a gravy train where a pack of crooks called Doctor's Data (Motto...

From The Millenium Project
http://www.ratbags.com/rsoles/index.html#11bolen
9/13/2010 1:36:16 PM
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A lawsuit has been filed in Chicago claiming that a child has been harmed by the treatments prescribed by Dr. Dan Rossignol and Dr. Anju Usman.

This is being reported in a story,

From Left Brain/Right Brain
http://leftbrainrightbrain.co.uk/2010/03/lawsuit-against-alternative-medical-practitioners-usman-and-rossignal/
3/5/2010 10:12:51 AM
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