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==The curious case of the "racists"==
 
==The curious case of the "racists"==
Denton claims that he is the victim of RACIST (always in capitals)<ref>[http://www.thepetition.co.uk/campaign-to-demand-justice-against-racist-bloggers-jo-brodie-and-josephine-jones Campaign to Demand Justice Against RACIST Bloggers Jo Brodie And Josephine Jones]</ref><ref>[http://erroldenton.wordpress.com/2012/11/14/errol-denton-winning-popularity-against-racist-bloggers-josephine-jones-and-jo-brodie/ Errol Denton Petition Winning Popularity Against RACIST Bloggers Josephine Jones And Jo Brodie]</ref><ref>[http://erroldenton.wordpress.com/2012/11/10/kkk-racist-bloggers-are-lower-than-a-cockroaches-belly/ KKK RACIST Josephine Jones And Jo Brodie Bloggers Are Lower Than A Cockroaches’ Belly]</ref><ref>[http://erroldenton.wordpress.com/2012/11/16/why-do-sociopathic-racists-jo-brodie-and-josephine-jones-operate-like-a-modern-day-cowardly-lynch-mob/ Errol Denton versus Sociopathic RACISTS JO Brodie And Josephine Jones Operating Like A Modern Day Cowardly Lynch Mob?]</ref><ref>[http://erroldenton.wordpress.com/2012/11/18/errol-denton-defeating-sociopathic-racist-cyber-bullies-josephine-jones-and-jo-brodie/ Errol Denton Defeating Sociopathic RACIST Cyber Bullies Josephine Jones And Jo Brodie]</ref><ref>[http://erroldenton.wordpress.com/2012/11/13/jo-brodie-josephine-jones-sociopathic-racist-bloggers-a-menace-to-society/ Jo Brodie | Josephine Jones Sociopathic RACIST Bloggers A Menace To Society]</ref> bloggers. He has made great efforts to publicise this "Campaign Against Racist Bloggers" (CARBS) against considerable opposition from presumably equally racist service providers and site admins; a blog at http://racistbloggerjobrodie.wordpress.com was closed for ToS violation, a [https://www.facebook.com/groups/549374468410653/?bookmark_t=group Facebook group] was closed down by Facebook, a petition on Care2 was closed down (their abuse ticket #782130), but finally a petition on the website thepetition.co.uk managed to remain online thanks to this site's well known support of victims of harassment.
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Denton claims that he is the victim of RACIST (always in capitals)<ref>[http://www.thepetition.co.uk/campaign-to-demand-justice-against-racist-bloggers-jo-brodie-and-josephine-jones Campaign to Demand Justice Against RACIST Bloggers Jo Brodie And Josephine Jones]</ref><ref>[http://erroldenton.wordpress.com/2012/11/14/errol-denton-winning-popularity-against-racist-bloggers-josephine-jones-and-jo-brodie/ Errol Denton Petition Winning Popularity Against RACIST Bloggers Josephine Jones And Jo Brodie]</ref><ref>[http://erroldenton.wordpress.com/2012/11/10/kkk-racist-bloggers-are-lower-than-a-cockroaches-belly/ KKK RACIST Josephine Jones And Jo Brodie Bloggers Are Lower Than A Cockroaches’ Belly]</ref><ref>[http://erroldenton.wordpress.com/2012/11/16/why-do-sociopathic-racists-jo-brodie-and-josephine-jones-operate-like-a-modern-day-cowardly-lynch-mob/ Errol Denton versus Sociopathic RACISTS JO Brodie And Josephine Jones Operating Like A Modern Day Cowardly Lynch Mob?]</ref><ref>[http://erroldenton.wordpress.com/2012/11/18/errol-denton-defeating-sociopathic-racist-cyber-bullies-josephine-jones-and-jo-brodie/ Errol Denton Defeating Sociopathic RACIST Cyber Bullies Josephine Jones And Jo Brodie]</ref><ref>[http://erroldenton.wordpress.com/2012/11/13/jo-brodie-josephine-jones-sociopathic-racist-bloggers-a-menace-to-society/ Jo Brodie | Josephine Jones Sociopathic RACIST Bloggers A Menace To Society]</ref> bloggers. He has made great efforts to publicise this "Campaign Against Racist Bloggers" (CARBS) against considerable opposition from presumably equally racist service providers and site admins: his Wordpress [http://racistbloggerjobrodie.wordpress.com blog] was closed for ToS violation; a [https://www.facebook.com/groups/549374468410653/?bookmark_t=group Facebook group] was closed down by Facebook; and a petition on Care2 was closed down (their abuse ticket #782130). Finally, Denton was able to create a lasting presence with a petition on the website thepetition.co.uk, which has managed to remain online thanks to the site's well-known support of victims of harassment.
  
 
Well, not that well-known. This petition website is in fact quite singular. The domain was registered with WHOIS privacy on 14 November 2012, coincidentally just after the Denton petition was last removed from Care2, it was originally hosted by Heart Internet but following complaints was replaced with a blank WordPress installation, then resurrected at a different web host.
 
Well, not that well-known. This petition website is in fact quite singular. The domain was registered with WHOIS privacy on 14 November 2012, coincidentally just after the Denton petition was last removed from Care2, it was originally hosted by Heart Internet but following complaints was replaced with a blank WordPress installation, then resurrected at a different web host.

Revision as of 23:46, 28 December 2012

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Errol Denton is a "Harley Street medical professional." Denton claims that he is able, using live blood analysis and iridology, to "cure" diseases through alkaline diet and liquid chlorophyll. He claims to have cured cancer, arthritis, Crohn's disease and the common cold and also claims to have treated royalty. [1]

His company Fitalifestyle has been listed by the U.K.'s Advertising Standards Authority as a non-compliant online advertiser, due to repeated failure to amend false claims.[2]

Denton has made a number of claims using figures which are, to put it charitably, not well researched.[3]

The curious case of the "racists"

Denton claims that he is the victim of RACIST (always in capitals)[4][5][6][7][8][9] bloggers. He has made great efforts to publicise this "Campaign Against Racist Bloggers" (CARBS) against considerable opposition from presumably equally racist service providers and site admins: his Wordpress blog was closed for ToS violation; a Facebook group was closed down by Facebook; and a petition on Care2 was closed down (their abuse ticket #782130). Finally, Denton was able to create a lasting presence with a petition on the website thepetition.co.uk, which has managed to remain online thanks to the site's well-known support of victims of harassment.

Well, not that well-known. This petition website is in fact quite singular. The domain was registered with WHOIS privacy on 14 November 2012, coincidentally just after the Denton petition was last removed from Care2, it was originally hosted by Heart Internet but following complaints was replaced with a blank WordPress installation, then resurrected at a different web host.

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According to skeptic observers an MTurk task to sign the petition was terminated by Amazon, but if you need $0.05 in a hurry the seeker "Errol" will pay you to sign via a similar task on ShortTask. But hurry! ShortTask 368612, which the Google cache shows asked the same thing, appears to have been nuked.

A skeptic or other cynic may come to a slightly less charitable conclusion. Ron Lewis, the "sceptical letter writer" talks of "Errol Denton's pretend petitions" and notes the curiously transient nature of his campaign on sites which have strong terms of service.[11]

In fairness

It should be stressed that there is only circumstantial evidence to suggest that Errol Denton registered the WordPress user name and blog at "racistbloggerjobrodie", and the petition site was registered with WHOIS privacy. The Facebook group was unquestionably created by Facebook user black.microscopist, who at one point had over 60 pictures of Jo Brodie in his timeline and his profile picture was of Denton[12], but that account appears to have been terminated.

So, it is just possible that this is a Joe job. A vicious one perpetuated by someone with a grudge against Denton that cannot be satisfied by making complaints to the authorities under the Medical Act 1983, the Cancer Act 1939, the Consumer Protection from Unfair Trading Regulations 2008 and so on, just as they reported him to the ASA for false advertising.

Always keep an open mind, just not so open that your brains fall out.

Footnotes

  1. Errol Denton: The Biography (warning: may contain nuts)
  2. Fitalifyestyle, ASA ruling.
  3. Brodie's article
  4. Campaign to Demand Justice Against RACIST Bloggers Jo Brodie And Josephine Jones
  5. Errol Denton Petition Winning Popularity Against RACIST Bloggers Josephine Jones And Jo Brodie
  6. KKK RACIST Josephine Jones And Jo Brodie Bloggers Are Lower Than A Cockroaches’ Belly
  7. Errol Denton versus Sociopathic RACISTS JO Brodie And Josephine Jones Operating Like A Modern Day Cowardly Lynch Mob?
  8. Errol Denton Defeating Sociopathic RACIST Cyber Bullies Josephine Jones And Jo Brodie
  9. Jo Brodie | Josephine Jones Sociopathic RACIST Bloggers A Menace To Society
  10. The site contains, as of the end of December 2012, the following petitions:
    1. "Nationalise the energy section in Scotland after independence" (13 signatures), mis-typed but otherwise identical to this on activism.com
    2. "Give funds for Microarray testing in Wales" (around 100 signatures), identical to this on GoPetiution.
    3. "Return VAT on air ambulance fuel payments" (4 signatures), identical to this on epetitions.direct.gov.uk where it has 154,067 signatures.
    4. "Save the UK Film Council" (2 signatures), identical to this on GoPetition where it was registered in July 2010. The UK Film Council closed on 31 March 2011, over 18 months before thepetition.co.uk was registered.
    5. "unreasonable increases in utility prices" (3 signatures), identical to this on GoPetition where it was registered in reaction to the 2008 increases in utility prices and subsequent announcement of utility company profits.
    6. "Campaign to Demand Justice Against RACIST Bloggers Jo Brodie And Josephine Jones" (973 signatures), the only petition on the site that does not currently exist in identical words on any other petition sites, the only one for which there is any evidence of active promotion and the only one that was not registered on those sites before thepetition.co.uk was registered.
    7. "Stop betting shops taking over our high streets" (4 signatures), identical to copied from this on GoPetition where it has 262 signatures since registration in January 2011.
    8. "Support pensions for pre-1975 veterans" (3 signatures), identical to this on GoPetition where it has 80 signatures.
    9. "Protection of the Cliffe historic and archaeological landscape" (2 signatures), identical to this on Activism.com
    10. "Save our Welsh cats and dogs from death on the roads" (3 signatures), identical to this on GoPetition where it has 412 signatures.
    11. "Upgrade the UK party political system to a Modular Democracy" (2 signatures), identical to this on GoPetition - where it is similarly unpersuasive.
    12. "We are against Westminster City Council's new parking regulations" (2 signatures), identical to this on GoPetition, closed in 2011 with the following comment: "Thank you to everyone who signed this petition, I am sure you are all aware that we were victorious in our campaign and the new parking regulations have been rescinded by Westminster City Council."
    One can only applaud the dedication of people who set up petitions to support campaigns that ended over a year previously.
  11. Errol Denton's Pretend Petitions, Skeptical Letter Writer
  12. Image capture from Facebook timeline
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