In double-blind medical tests on legal thuggery ...

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Via ciphergoth: The Society of Homeopaths has a code of practice and rules of professional conduct, including such cautions as "Advertising shall not contain claims of superiority. No advertising may be used which expressly or implicitly claims to cure named diseases." When Andy Lewis of the Quackometer found a SOH-registered homeopath blatantly flouting the code and wrote about it, the SOH promptly dealt with the offender ...

Well, no — they forced his ISP to take it down under the Laurence Godfrey precedent (the mere threat can scare a UK ISP), despite his letter offering to deal with the issue (read it). This has led to the original article being mirrored across the net. And has made the news. I expect the SOH's press officer will have a really great Monday morning.

Any SOH members in the house?

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I expect he's been having a really bad time ever since the mirroring started. See http://dcscience.net/?p=171 for the position a week ago.