Good news everyone!

If you're a regular on the bayblab, or have listened to our last podcast, you know we have a beef with a certain cancer quack here in ottawa. Well an informant tells me there was a little raid conducted there last week under the guise of the royal college of physicians and surgeons. It seems our friend may have had the visit of some law enforcement officers. Perhaps the royal college reads the bayblab... Now this made my Monday morning.... Suck it Bill.
From the Ottawa citizen: "Ottawa police helped investigators from the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario execute a search warrant in the Glebe Thursday morning. Two uniformed officers and a detective helped college investigators execute a warrant at a Fifth Avenue business at 10 a.m. No arrests were made and no charges were laid. Police said their only role was to help with the warrant's execution, and referred questions about the investigation to the college. Kathryn Clarke, spokeswoman for the regulating body, said the Regulated Health Professions Act did not allow her to discuss details of a potential investigation. "It's only if the college refers a doctor to discipline that information comes into the public arena," she said."

Update: I'm noticing a lot of traffic coming to this site thanks to Healthwatcher now linking to us about the CCRG and our scoop of its investigation by the college of surgeon and physicians. I'm also seeing a lot of journalists and counsellors from the city of Ottawa coming to this site. Feel free to contact us at labbenches@hotmail.com if you want an account of our multiple encounters with Bill O'Neil, how he's been long known to the cancer research community here in Ottawa or have access to all our recorded information about his dealings with us.

Bayblab Threathened of Legal Actions -updated

Breaking news! Finally somebody understands how much a couple of graduate students working on cancer with a blog are a powerful authority. It was about time something was done to stop this nonsense. Here is the history of what happened when William O'Neil who has accumulated quite a reputation with his alternative therapy to cancer, and his attacks against a blog run by graduate students actually doing work on cancer.

On March 24th, at 10:51:31 AM somebody with the IP (70.53.21.88) who uses a dsl line with Bell Canada (sympatico Hi-speed edition!) and lives in Ottawa, Ontario stumbles upon the Bayblab. The person in question uses a windows XP machine, a screen resolution of 1280X1024 and Microsoft internet explorer 7.0. I warmly recommend to use firefox over MSIE 7.0 by the way.

At 10:51:45 AM He does a search on google.ca/blogsearch for "Canadian cancer research group"

At 11:00:29 AM He looks on technorati for who lists the bayblab as their favorite, come up with a name of a fan of the bayblab.

at 11:41:50 William O'Neil then sends an email to the yahoo account of the fan saying something like this: "If you don't remove all material concerning me or my company by monday March 26th, I will sue you for defamation". The crazy part is that the website was not even setup by that person so he's threatening the wrong person. I guess he has no other name to go by.

At 12:32:31 He does a search on the bayblab looking for "O'Neil". Too bad that name is never mentioned by us just quoted ad verbatim from quackwatch.

At 12:33:27 He puts an "anonymous" comment on the blog: "hey fuckwad! post a peer reviewed study demonstrating the efficacy of chemotherapy. goodluck...." Ouch somebody called me fuckwad, that's rude, my feelings are hurt. Yet another chemotherapy denier!

Geez thank god the internet is not anonymous...Somebody got his IP blocked!!!

March25th:
BREAKING NEWS, seems our admirer is not only harassing some of the OHRI senior scientists but is also trying to manipulate some of our employer (which is an offense under canadian law) and trying to get us fired by contacting Dr. Worton, the CEO of the OHRI. Little does he know that the OHRI's legal department does not care about this, and all he is doing, is angering people higher up.

Due to inadequate libel laws and lack of regulation of alternative medecine here in Ontario, quackery can prevail and free speech is muffled. I decided to slightly modify the post as a precaution. Just shows how antiquated the laws are in Canada and in the USA. Mr Oneil is actually operating his clinic within the law (or gray area), for the time being.

March 26th:
It seems Mr. O'Neil has nothing better to do than harass cancer researchers (from his work at 24.235.122.122). He sent another email this time claiming that he owns copyrights to his name and the name of his company. However according to Canadian law "Titles, names and short word combinations are usually not protected by copyright. A "work" or other "subject matter" for copyright purposes must be something more substantial. "
Links, Url and metatags are definitely not protected under copyright law in Canada. I guess this man just can't handle criticism by real scientists... how about you justify your claims Mr' O'Neil.
Has your method been published in any peer-reviewed publication? How do vitamins and amino-acids contribute to treating cancer and what is the efficacy? We'll gladely invite you to the podcast if you want to debate with real scientists.