Google Searches on "Monica Pignotti" reveal false digg dot comm article and other false spam about me

Google Searches on "Monica Pignotti" are now bringing up this false digg.com article fourth, so I want to once again point out that this digg.com is itself a libelous article (I am not being sued for defamation or anything else) that Digg has refused to remove. They refuse to remove this even though I told them it was false and pointed out to them that there was no evidence or documentation of any kind to support this allegation that I am being sued because I am not being sued. Apparently their idea of "free speech" is allowing outright lies to remain up even when no evidence whatsoever exists to support them, so I give a big thumbs down to Digg.com. Googling my name will also reveal that I have cyberstalkers who are posting bizarre ads about me all over the internet. Fortunately, unlike Digg.com, Craigslist and Backpage are able to recognize spam and harassment when it is pointed out to them and they are deleting these articles as I make them aware of them. So kudos to Craigslist and Backpage and thumbs down to Digg dot com.

The Digg article is supposed to link to evidence, but it does not. All it links to is my own blog. There is no evidence because, in fact, I am not being sued for defamation or anything else. The article is false and all it links to is my blog that states that it is false. There are people online who are very upset by my criticisms of them who have threatened to sue, but the threats are unsubstantiated and when I have called their bluff, they have not sued because they know they would have no case against me.

For people who wonder how this whole situation came about, I have published a number of articles criticizing what, in my opinion and the opinion of numerous others are unsupported therapy practices that can sometimes do more harm than good. This, of course, is seen as a threat by people who promote such approaches, but instead of issuing any kind of intelligent rebuttal, they spam the internet with ads about me that contain outright lies. Many of the ads are being circulated by proponents of dangerous forms of "attachment" therapies which attack my colleagues and I for exposing these. See http://www.chidrenintherapy.org for more about this.

Rebuttal to False Information about Monica Pignotti on Digg.com

The purpose of this blog is to rebut the false information that is on digg.com about me that they refuse to remove. The story (which I will not link to here because I do not want to give them more publicity) tells lies about me that I am being sued for "defamation" and under "Investigation" in three states. To anyone Googling "Monica Pignotti" please read this first. I am not being sued for defamation and am not under investigation in any states or by anyone, nor is there any kind of "class action" against me. This is so ridiculous that I would be laughing if it were not so potentially damaging to my reputation.
My record is squeaky clean and has remained clean throughout my life. These lies were perpetuated against me by people who apparently are angry with me for expressing my opinions and skepticism about claims being made. I wrote to digg.com to try to have the lies removed, but they have refused, maintaining that this is their right to "free speech". Apparently the folks at digg.com think it is just fine to perpetuate false information, even when they have been informed that the information is false. They had two false postings about me. One they took down which was about a law suit that was thrown out 7 years ago. I have been threatened with law suits and once, in 2002, thirty people (including me) who had expressed skepticism about the claims of an alternative medicine practitioner who claimed to have "the cure for all diseases" were sued for "racketeering" . However, that suit was so obviously ludicrous that the judge threw it out immediately and I didn't even have to hire a lawyer -- that was 7 years ago. People can read about that at this link if they would like to have a good laugh at the absurdity of accusing scholarly people who ask for research evidence and refuse to believe unsupported claims, to be "racketeers". The gentle "new agers" from this group also wrote that they hoped that I would get cancer. What a nice, loving bunch of folks!
The other false posting on digg.com which states that I am being sued for "defamation" and under "investigation" remains up and they refuse to take it down. This probably got started because of idle, baseless threats that were made against me by someone who knew she had no case against me and never followed through. So I will state for the record, that this is not true. I am not being sued for defamation and the digg.com produced no evidence whatsoever for this. Ironically, the digg.com poster only linked to one of my blogs where I explicitly stated just the opposite. It is very disconcerting to me to see this false information from digg.com come up on the first page of Google searches on my name. Hopefully this posting will set the record straight.