Letter
To Authorities regarding Nick Ritchie
To
Australian Communication and Media Associationat
online@acma.gov.au
Dear
Madam/Sir:
I
realise you must be an Australian citizen or reside in Oz to make a complaint
however since Mr. Ritchie has been both targeting
and harassing concerned citizens I think it is important that
your organisation check him out.
My name is Amy
Cunningham. I'm American, work in pharma, live in Tanzania and am the mother of
two girls with serious eating disorders. Fortunately through treatment and new
research my girls are improving.
As you may be aware
there are over 30 million people in the US and more than 1 million people in
Australia suffering from eating disorders (http://www.eatingdisorders.org.au/key-research-a-statistics). Eating disorders have the highest
mortality rates of any mental illness, killing up to one in 10 people who suffer.
While treatment is only now becoming more available, research shows that
EDs are based in biology. Therefore people with EDs need professional
help. Unfortunately, with the increase in awareness of EDs, people like Nick
Ritchie simply want to target vulnerable sufferers for personal gain.
An Australian citizen,
Mr. Nick Ritchie, runs a facebook page, twitter site support groups and a
website to promote his 'program' for people with eating disorders. He dispenses
seriously misguided and dangerous information. He claims to be able to
‘cure’ eating disorders and that eating disorders are not linked to
biology. When questioned by concerned
parents such as myself, he and his administrator (a Joshua Brenner) attack and
threaten us. Many of his targets are vulnerable young boys and girls
already in great need of help.
We understand that you
must be an Australian citizen to complain therefore we are enlisting our
networks of concerned citizens, parents, activists and others to report him to
you for investigation. We would like to know if he runs
a legitimate business and is regulated by the Department of
Health. We've also reported to the latter. The ACMA would be sending a
strong message to the world that you will not tolerate such manipulative targeting
of people with a several psychological illness for profit, using misinformation
and aggressive marketing techniques to do so.
Twitter nickritchie01
(hashtags #StopEDScams #stopnickritchie).
Thank you for your
kind assistance.
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