by OQRI | Mar 30, 2018 | News |
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has confirmed that it investigated ASQ State Section Chair William Levinson under its US Counterterrorism Division, coming on the heels of the Parkland shooting tragedy. Levinson is also a member of APICS. The investigation...
by OQRI | Mar 2, 2018 | News |
The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) has ruled that ASQ State Section Chair William A. Levinson infringed on the trademark rights of Oxebridge by registering and operating the anti-Oxebridge defamation website previously located at www.oxebridge.biz....
by Christopher Paris | Feb 21, 2018 | Opinion |
This gets gruesome, so be warned. Pennsylvania ASQ Section 209 Chair Bill Levinson once posted a fantasy whereby he mused about murdering a 13-year old girl, a scenario which he framed as a lesson against terrorism. The post was originally made here, but you’ll...
by OQRI | Feb 13, 2018 | News |
The website for ASQ Section 205 Binghamton NY has pulled from its calendar of upcoming events a planned discussion on “culture” by controversial ASQ Fellow and Pennsylvania Section Chair Bill Levinson. Levinson has written a decade or more of online...
by Christopher Paris | Jan 22, 2018 | Opinion |
Just a quick update on the Levinson lawsuit, for those wondering. The January 18th hearing was a bit of a mixed bag, with the judge deferring on a number of our motions to dismiss, shooting two of them down, but also dealing a significant blow to Levinson. A second...
by OQRI | Jan 17, 2018 | News |
According to archived Google Groups posts for what was once Usenet newsgroups, ASQ Section 209 Chair and ASQ Fellow William Levinson was openly accused of racism and homophobia in 2004, after referring to Muslims as “ragheads” and African Americans as...
by Christopher Paris | Jan 15, 2018 | News |
An initial hearing date has been set for the lawsuit filed by ASQ’s William Levinson against Oxebridge for January 18th, 2018, at the Hillsborough County Courthouse in Tampa FL. Levinson is suing Oxebridge for defamation, after Oxebridge founder Christopher...
by Christopher Paris | Jan 13, 2018 | Opinion |
Since at least 2002 — that’s 16 years for you without a high-level degree in mathematics — ASQ’s Bill Levinson has accidentally been claiming to be a lawyer, even though he doesn’t have a law degree. To be fair, it’s probably not...
by Christopher Paris | Jan 6, 2018 | Opinion |
ASQ Section 209 Chair William Levinson just quoted Joseph Stalin in one of the more bizarre rants on his growing Osteinfo.net defamation site. Have a look:The quote is just outright strange, because it appears that Levinson is using the Communist leader — who...
by Christopher Paris | Jan 4, 2018 | Opinion |
The ASQ Binghamton NY section 205 is hosting a speech by beleaguered Section 209 Chair William Levinson from Pennsylvania, despite ongoing controversies surrounding alleged Code of Ethics violations, publications deemed as racist, and ejection from the 2017 ISO 9000...
by Christopher Paris | Jan 1, 2018 | Opinion |
ASQ Section 209 Chair Bill Levinson has launched his third website aimed at defaming Oxebridge. The new site, “Osteinfo.net,” follows two previous attempts by Levinson, “Oxebridge.biz” and “Oxfake.com.” In all three cases, Levinson...
by Christopher Paris | Jan 24, 2011 | Opinion |
Washington DC — In a refreshingly blunt and honest critique of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) mandate that providers of durable medical equipment (DME) undergo a “competitive bidding process”, watchdog group Center for Regulatory...
by OQRI | Mar 9, 2018 | News |
Oxebridge has filed separate complaints against the American Society for Quality (ASQ) and the American Production and Inventory Control Society (APICS) alleging consumer fraud and deceptive marketing. The complaint against ASQ was filed with the Wisconsin Bureau of...
by Christopher Paris | Mar 1, 2018 | Opinion |
In what’s becoming a growing series of articles, I have to yet again respond to an outrageous bullshit claim made on the internet by ASQ’s Bill Levinson. This time, Levinson is suggesting that Oxebridge is hypocritical in fighting against the unaccredited...
by Christopher Paris | Jan 22, 2018 | Humor |
And here’s Part III of our ongoing series where we look back at some recent editorial graphics that ran alongside Oxebridge posts. See Part I of this series here, and Part II here. Jimmy Olsen Works for ISO Earnest, dedicated and clueless: that’s the...
by Christopher Paris | Jan 14, 2018 | Humor, Opinion |
You’ve all seen it. Managementspeak. Boardroom bullshit. Jargon jerking. Buzzword salad. It’s the language that only consultants use, while they smugly persist in the delusions that their mangled torture of human language makes them seem smart, helps them...
by Christopher Paris | Jan 11, 2018 | Humor, Opinion, Satire |
The American Quality Institute (AQI)’s marketing machine is on full spam-bomb alert, with constant emails announcing their planned 2018 event this coming April in Las Vegas, because getting old white ISO consultants in front of legal hookers, gambling and free...
by OQRI | Jan 5, 2018 | News |
Oxebridge has begun the process to secure protection under US Federal Whistleblower Protection laws, and more specifically those administered by the US. Dept of Defense (DoD) under the Defense Intelligence Community Whistleblower Protection (DICWP). Oxebridge is under...
by Christopher Paris | Jan 2, 2018 | Opinion |
In what’s becoming a regular series, we’re forced again to confront another pernicious and defamatory claim made by ASQ’s Bill Levinson: that Oxebridge illegally distributed copies of an early draft version of ISO 9001:2015, in violation of...
by Christopher Paris | Jan 1, 2018 | Opinion |
The false claim that Oxebridge “hacked its own website” — twice — is making new rounds, after being utterly ignored by a US Federal court judge as part of the Oxebridge v Elsmar lawsuit. Now it’s being repeated by ASQ’s Bill...
by Christopher Paris | Dec 30, 2017 | Opinion |
To normal readers who don’t decorate their neighbors’ lawns at Christmas with burning crosses, it’s not at all clear what is going on over at the editorial board of Quality Digest, led primarily by publisher Mike Richman and editor Dirk Dusharme. It...
by Christopher Paris | Dec 18, 2017 | Opinion |
Score one for the good guys. Following months of pressure from yours truly, ASQ has finally updated the Code of Ethics, adding both an explicit prohibition against discrimination, and improving the enforcement language that indicates violators of the Code may be...
by Christopher Paris | Nov 29, 2017 | Opinion |
I will be spending a relaxing few days on the beaches of the Florida Space Coast from Saturday December 2nd through Wednesday December 6th, if any O-Fans wish to drop by and get some free advice, share ISO horror stories, or simply drink mojitos at the Tiki Bar. On...
by Christopher Paris | Oct 15, 2017 | Opinion |
[Adult language warning.] Dinosaurs still exist, and they occupy positions of power in the American Society for Quality. Of course this article will enrage said brontosauri, who will noisly demand they retain the right to objectify women at any turn. While evolution...
by Christopher Paris | Oct 15, 2017 | Humor |
A while back, we ran a blog entry on the various editorial parody graphics that have accompanied Oxebridge articles over time. Often these graphics are used as tiny thumbnails for the entries, or otherwise embedded in an article and often overlooked. That last set...
