….call for you from Barbara Streisand.

As anyone who has spent any time in the skeptical blogosphere this week already knows, one Marc Stephens, who appears to be some sort of PR dude for a Houston clinic run by one Dr. Burzynski, where cancer patients can receive a fantastically expensive (and almost certainly useless) treatment, has been issuing legalish¹ threats to bloggers critical of said clinic, doctor, and treatment, demanding that they take down their criticisms.

There: I got the gist of the whole story in one sentence, which is pretty much all that was needed, as y’all already knew all that, right? The immune system of the blogosphere has reacted in its usual self-protective way: Withdraw the criticism? The hell you say! — we’ll just spread it around some more! A whole lot more.

All that’s needed to further prime the Google bomb is to plagiarize a bunch of links that Larry Moran already posted:

• Mike’s Weekly Skeptic Rant: Burzynski Clinic – Medical Quacks and Legal Blowhards
• Pharyngula: Burzynski Clinic: the domain of scoundrels and quacks
• The Quackometer: The Burzynski Clinic Threatens 17 Year Old Blogger
• Respectful Insolence: Marc Stephens issues more threats on behalf of the Burzynski Clinic
• Science-Based Medicine: Stanislaw Burzynski: Bad medicine, a bad movie, and bad P.R.
• Skeptic North: Burzynski Clinic? Meet the Streisand Effect

¹I say “legalish” as Stephens’ attempts to sound like a lawyer are amusingly pathetic.