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http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/08/mf_qa_singh/ http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/08/mf_qa_singh/ Wired article about how the British Chiropractic Associati
by srean 16y ago
http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/08/mf_qa_singh/ http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/08/mf_qa_singh/ Wired article about how the British Chiropractic Association went after Singh.
Simon Singh: It would have meant that whenever somebody
typed “Simon Singh” into a Web search, it would say,
“science journalist found guilty of libel.” People could
dismiss anything I’d ever written about alternative
medicine. But more important, it would have implied that
there is some validity to these claims that chiropractic
can help with things like asthma and colic. And that
would have an impact on parents and their children. Faced
with that, I couldn’t apologize. If you’ve written
something that you believe is true, and if you can afford
to defend it, then you’ve got to defend it.
- bhickey 16y agoThe UK really needs to backport the Zenger Trial.
- fanf2 16y agoWe already did. The problems are with the cost of defending and the lack of a public interest or legitimate argument defence.
- srean 16y agoThis http://www.relfe.com/media_can_legally_lie.html http://www.relfe.com/media_can_legally_lie.html I think turns it on its head. Its trajectory was quite the opposite of Singh's libel lawsuit. Zenger side of Atlantic isn't any rosier. It was established that, deliberate falsification of the news (by Fox) is the agency's legal right, and so is firing reporters not willing to lie on purpose (about health effects). Law totally beats me. Thankfully I am not a lawyer.