We provide space to a number of people who make, at times somewhat
controversial statements. One such page, is
http://www.mall-net.com/mcs/algae.html , which appears to be a series of
quotations from scientific literature. We have verified some of these
quotations, but not all of them. In addition, comments in an article in
Scientific American, January 1994, page 78+, "The Toxins of Cyanobacteria"
by W. W. Carmichael, appears to support the author's conjecture that the
so called "blue green algae" sold in stores is a low toxicity cultivar of
a cyano-bacteria (not even an algae!) known to cause red tide, and can be
potentially lethal.
The vendor of the product mentioned on that page states that they
have sued the author, and is threatening to haul us in to court if that
page is not removed within two days. (Their first threat was e-mailed to
us in the proprietary MS Word format, which we could not read.)
It further appears that many critical articles related to so called
"blue-green algae" have been removed from the web, and entire servers shut
down. (This could be due to normal link rot, or not.) Attempts to reach
the author have, thus far, not been successful.
I wonder if any one knows what avenues a web operator such as myself
has regarding these problems, what kind of response to the e-mail we
received, etc. might be reasonable.
I would hate to remove an article which appears, at least on the
surface, to have some merit, particularly since comments were made in
Scientific American regarding dangers from these products. Some of these
so called algae products (though possibly not theirs,) have adversely
affected me when I tried them, rendering me almost incapable of performing
basic life activities for several days after only one dose.
Their text:
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We represent The New Algae Company, Inc., dba Cell Tech.
Cell Tech produces and markets the nutritional supplement Super Blue-Green
Algae (SBGA). =20
Your website, http://www.mall-net.com/mcs, features a link to a =
document called the Anatoxin-a Primer, written by Mark Thorson. This =
document contains allegations that are false and defamatory to Cell Tech.
Cell Tech recently filed suit against Mr. Thorson in the Klamath County =
Circuit Court, Klamath Falls, Oregon, seeking damages for defamation and =
trade libel based on his repeated posting of the Anatoxin-a Primer to =
Usenet groups. =20
We request that you remove from your site any reference or link to
the Anatoxin-a Primer. We recognize that you may not have been aware that
the Anatoxin-a Primer contains false and defamatory statements, and for =
that reason we have not chosen to take legal action against you. However,
we expect that you will remove your link to the Anatoxin-a Primer within =
two days after you receive this letter. If you choose not to do so, Cell
Tech will be forced to consider all options, including legal action.
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