Quacks continue to learn the wrong lessons about cybergooning critics

[the_archfiend]

A while ago, I posted on an attempt by Stanislaw Burzynski to utilize legal threats to silence critics of his alleged alternative cancer therapy. Those threats didn't work, of course, but quacks the world over are sometimes exceedingly difficult to educate on the merits of threatening to sue people who can do basic research and one of them - British autism crank Andrew Wakefield - has now picked up some of Burzynski's bad habits as detailed by Orac on Respectful Insolence (the three posts concerning this can be found here, here and here). Wakefield has decided to sue journalist Brian Deer and the British Medical Journal for libelling him even though he doesn't have much of a reputation remaining to libel any more. Stay tuned.