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Dore Group (NZ) go under
Posted on April 16, 2009
According to Brainduck the New Zealand branch of Dore, having survived the collapse of Dore (UK) and Dore (Australia), have now gone under.
Voluntary liquidation: Dore Group close NZ subsidiary
Company: Dore Group (NZ) Ltd
Directors: David Conroy, Greenlane
Liquidation: 23 March
Liquidators: Tim Downes & Greg Sherriff (Grant Thornton Auckland Ltd)
Creditors’ claims: Friday 24 April
Other details: The company is [...]
Posted in Dore | 3 Comments »
Ben Goldacre and The Guardian triumph over murderous Matthias Rath
Posted on September 13, 2008
Matthias Rath, a vitamin pill entrepreneur, has pulled out of his attempts to sue Ben Goldacre and The Guardian newspaper for libel. Rath claims that his vitamin supplements can reverse AIDS, that his pills are better than conventional AIDS treatments and actively campaigns against the use of drug treatments for AIDS patients in the townships [...]
Posted in Matthias Rath, bad science, badscience, censorship, legal | 25 Comments »
Dore – clients are unlikely to recieve refunds, more media coverage and a collection of links
Posted on May 31, 2008
Dore in Administration
First and most importantly Dore UK, similar to the situation in Australia, have now declared that is ‘as the Company will be in Administration there are no funds available to reimburse clients.’, a position confirmed by their Administrators. The Citizens Advice Bureau offer free advice which may be of use to clients [...]
Posted in bad science | 3 Comments »
Dore – the media creak into action, Wynford issues a statement and the administrators post a notice *update*
Posted on May 28, 2008
Finally, two weeks after the company started to crumble the main stream media are beginning to cover the story. The Guardian have a slightly out of date story covering some of the events and quotes from disgruntled clients. The Guardian story also carries a quote from Wynford Dore, taken from the Dore website, [...]
Posted in Dore, bad science, badscience, disability | 12 Comments »
Dore US collapse too
Posted on May 27, 2008
Dore US have collapsed with staff commenting on their forums. I urge all customers to cancel any cheques they have written or direct debits paid directly to Dore as reports suggest that Dore will continue to take money after the collapse. If you are paying through a third party then contact them immediately [...]
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Dore – the vultures start to circle
Posted on May 27, 2008
Normally when a business collapses it is common to see other businesses circling hungrily, eyeing up assets and soliciting customers. The dyslexia industry, for all its claims just to be helping people, is no different from any other business. It has been brought to my attention that The Learning People, subject of one [...]
Posted in Dore, bad science, badscience, disability, dyslexia | 13 Comments »
Links about Dore
Posted on May 26, 2008
Here is a collection of links covering the Dore story, many of these have helpful advice and provide valuable insights. However, the most important advice for Dore UK staff and customers is this comment posted by Duck on the Dore Talk forums on how to recover money owed:
Trading Standards is a good place to [...]
Posted in Dore, bad science, badscience, disability | 2 Comments »
Dore UK – brought down by unsustainable debt?
Posted on May 23, 2008
As Dore (DDAT (UK)) have recently announced they have called in the advisors coupled with the recent move into administration of Dore Australia it is worth examining the state of the Dore finances as staff and clients are now creditors. The situation in Australia saw heartbreaking tales of staff finding themselves out of work [...]
Posted in Dore, bad science, badscience, pseudoscience | 9 Comments »
Dore UK go into administration?
Posted on May 23, 2008
Dore UK have posted this on their website:
It is with great regret that we have to announce that Dore has been put into the hands of advisors. As a result Dore is closing all of the UK centres which deliver the Dore Programme with immediate effect.
We are determined to find a way for every client [...]
Posted in Dore, disability, legal | 4 Comments »
Dore Australia go into administration? *Updated 1, 2, 3, 4 ,5 ,6, 7*
Posted on May 17, 2008
In January I wrote this post on the abbreviated accounts for Dore Dyslexia, DDAT (UK), which revealed a gaping black hole of -£6.8m in their current account accumulated loss of £6.8m. It seems that it is not just Dore in the UK that is in financial strife, Dore Group (Australasia) Ltd have apparently gone [...]
Posted in Dore, disability | 61 Comments »
Are Dore in deep finanical doo doo? *updated*
Posted on January 28, 2008
Dore, the dubious dyslexia people, have recently come under criticism from brainduck and holfordwatch for publishing their research claiming to successfully treat Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASDs) in the mighty Leamington Courier rather than a peer reviewed journal. Holfordwatch and Brainduck are very critical of the research methodology, the sample size and the ethics of [...]
Posted in Dore, disability, dyslexia, legal, pseudoscience | 32 Comments »
I wish I was special, so fucking special* – learning disability profit-mongering
Posted on October 3, 2007
Special. Gifted. Talented. No, not the words of a mother to her beloved but dim child, but the emotive terms with which various charities and profit making organisations use when talking about specific learning disabilities.
Posted in bad science, badscience, disability | 15 Comments »
