Here is a short break from the astonishing festival of chiropractic that has followed the British Chiropractic Association (BCA) v Simon Singh defamation case, and the absurd NICE guidance on low back pain. Singh’s statement already has over 10000 signatories, many very distinguished, Sign it now if you haven’t already. And getting on for 600 [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Freedom of speech'
More make-believe from the University of Westminster. This time it’s Naturopathy
June 25th, 2009 · 26 Comments
Tags: Academia · Anti-science · British Chiropractic Association · CAM · Dangerous advice · Freedom of speech · General Chiropractic Council · Geoffrey Petts · Quality assessment · Universities · University of Westminster · Westminster university · antioxidant · antiscience · defamation · management bollocks · nutribollocks · nutrition · nutritional therapy · vice-chancellors
Simon Singh will appeal! Keep the Libel Laws out of Science
June 4th, 2009 · 9 Comments
The battle for freedom of speech is under way. Simon Singh is a great science writer and communicator. He is author of The Big Bang, The Code Book, Fermat’s Last Theorem, and, with Edzard Ernst, Trick or Treatment. They are superb books (buy from Amazon). When Singh had the temerity to express an honest opinion, [...]
Tags: British Chiropractic Association · Freedom of speech · chiropractic · chiropractor · defamation · lawyers · libel
And then they came for me
January 18th, 2009 · 3 Comments
One of the most extraordinary bits of journalism I’ve read for a long time appeared as an editorial in the Sri Lankan newspaper, the Sunday Leader, on Sunday January 11th 2009 It was reproduced in the Guardian on 13th January, and in The Times. It was written by Lasantha Wickrematunge, editor of the Sunday Leader, [...]
Tags: Freedom of speech · Journalism · Lasantha Wickrematunge · Politicians · chiropractic · chiropractor · politics