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Fang Zhouzi beats lawsuit over super rice

Fang Zhouzi, an anti-fraud crusader who frequently faces lawsuits over his take-no-prisoners approach to combating pseudoscience and chicanery, beat back a lawsuit from CEB Rice, whose specially-engineered, super-expensive rice was branded a fraud by... ...full story at Danwei

from Danwei on Wed, Dec 24 2008

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