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The Campaign for Libel Reform is an ongoing movement in the UK to change our libel laws. People all over the world have been using our legal system to silence their critics. Libel is supposed to protect people’s reputations that have been unfairly damaged, but it has become a means for the rich and powerful to keep their dirty dealings secret and frighten (or chill) others out of exposing them. See Simon Singh’s case, for example.
Soho Skeptics 7/11/12 Chris Atkins is probably best known for his documentary film Starsuckers and he told us a bit about how it came to be and some of what's happened since at the first Soho Skeptics event last week. Chris pointed out that his talk could probably be summed up by one story that …
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Comments on this post are now closed - thank you to all civil contributors! Update 2015: excellent summary of the controversies on this subject at MosaicScience Update 2017: on the results of the PACE trial of CBT for ME/CFS and errors at SBM Last night I was lucky to be at the Royal Pharmaceutical Society for …
Background A couple of years back I attended a Skeptics in the Pub meeting in Holborn at which Dave Gorman and Prof Brian Cox came to support Simon Singh. He had been served a libel threat by the British Chiropractic Association (BCA) for criticising claims from chiropractors about curing colic in babies and so on. …
This weekend I journeyed to the centre in the freezing cold to join the Rally for Free Expression opposite the House of Lords. Here's my flickr set, plus you can see One Law For All's videos and photos as well (of course, in the one I'm in, I'm making a weird face). Pod Delusion have some …
Sorry for the unimaginative title, but I get the feeling number 2 won't be the last and at least this makes it easily searchable. In this post, I want to talk about people's online behaviour regarding this issue, think about it a bit and hopefully get others to do the same. It's not a sciencey …
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