Thanks for the warning, guys

If you were unlucky enough to work at Rolf's Patisserie in Lincolnwood, you have my condolences - especially concerning that last paycheck that wasn't much of one:

The bakery's 136 employees learned of the closure via the company's website, after being sent home while the bakery went through an intensive weekend cleaning. According to a news release from Arise Chicago, the workers' last paychecks bounced when they tried to cash them.

Seriously, where do the owners of businesses like Rolf's and Republic Windows come up with the gall to do this to their former employees? Some pocket universe that's just that long on assholes and short on accountability, perhaps?

Uh oh

...because if I'm publishing a link to the website of the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, it can't be anything but good news, right?

Quacks continue to learn the wrong lessons about cybergooning critics

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.