Posted on July 29, 2009 by eveningperson
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[BPSDB] Along with many other blogs and magazines, I am reproducing, below, Simon Singh’s article on chiropractic, which led to his being sued for libel by the British Chiropractic Association. The full story can be found here. The point of the publication is to show support for Singh in his fighting the libel [...]
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Posted on May 26, 2009 by eveningperson
[BPSDB]There seems not to have been much comment on the press statement by the British Chiropractic Association on 7 May about the libel case against Simon Singh. This appears to be highly misleading. It reads in part:
In April 2008 Simon Singh published an article in the Guardian newspaper and on Guardian Online in the course [...]
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Posted on May 19, 2009 by eveningperson
[BPSDB]At the Quackometer, Andy Lewis is organising a Carnival of B**** Chiropractic (insert your own B-word there). This is an opportunity, I think, not only to do some serious investigation and make some serious points about the validity of chiropractic and the claims that are made for it, but also to make fun of the [...]
Filed under: badscience, libel, pseudoscience, quackery, scepticism, science | Tagged: alternative medicine, chiropractic, chiropractors, complementary medicine, libel, pseudomedicine, pseudoscience, Quackometer | Leave a Comment »