Quackometer silenced!

I have a confession to make. I find the tawdry spectacle of the Diana death inquiry quite fascinating. On the one hand we have evidence from numerous witnesses which stands up to fiercely objective scrutiny and on the other we have the ridiculous conspiracy theories of a bereaved father. The believability of the claims from all sides is rigorously investigated and eventually, one hopes, the truth of the matter will become clear. Essential to this process is the fact that all arguments are subjected to equal scrutiny and assessed by a panel of jurors.

The bereaved father has a long history of writing letters to newspapers and hassling pillars of the establishment to support his lurid allegations. However far from being silenced by the sinister hand of the state he, as his is right, is allowed to make baseless claims with little fear of sanction. However, he is being derided as a clueless fantasist utterly bereft of reason and decorum over his beliefs and nobody in their right mind takes him seriously any more. Now imagine if he could censor these opinions and prevent free discussion purely by the act of penning an angry letter, allow his conspiracy theories to propagate unchallenged? Would we want to live in a society where emotional fantasists can silence criticism and delusional beliefs go unchecked?

Joseph Chikelue Obi is a quack, a fantasist guilty of serious professional misconduct, unfit to practice medicine and he hates the Quackometer

Joseph Chikelue Obi MD MPH FRIPH FRCAM FACAM MICR is very obviously a fantasist quack who has been sacked for professional misconduct and suspended by the GMC, taken advantage of a poor widow and is in charge of an imaginary college amongst other misdeeds. So why bother with such an obvious charlatan? Well it turns out that being an obvious charlatan is no barrier to the suppression of free speech on the internet. The Quackometer penned a couple of highly critical, although absolutely not defamatory, articles on Mr Obi a while back and now Mr Obi has taken a leaf out of the Society of Homeopath‘s book in an attempt to censor the Quackometer. This attempt has been successful with the Quackometer having had to take down the relevant articles. However, this isn’t an example of a professional organisation, which loosely and arguably the SoH are, trying to prevent criticism, this is an example of a spineless hosting company, netcetra, caving into the demands of charlatan who is attempting extortion.