Comments on: Simon Singh and the battle for free speech http://nickcohen.net/2009/05/20/simon-singh-and-the-battle-for-free-speech/ Journalism from London. Mon, 13 Feb 2012 15:30:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Singh when you’re winning… « Noodlemaz http://nickcohen.net/2009/05/20/simon-singh-and-the-battle-for-free-speech/#comment-1997 Thu, 18 Mar 2010 10:31:23 +0000 http://nickcohen.net/?p=705#comment-1997 [...] Nick Cohen’s article; Chris Kavanagh’s review; a post by another science journalist… [...]

]]> By: Gayle http://nickcohen.net/2009/05/20/simon-singh-and-the-battle-for-free-speech/#comment-1308 Mon, 22 Jun 2009 21:08:30 +0000 http://nickcohen.net/?p=705#comment-1308 Was the article published in a Scientific journal?
No.
So why are you worrying.
It was published in a newspaper.
If they were suing him over a journal article I might be worried. It’s a newspaper, hardly a peer reviewed journal.
You talk about freedom of speech. Well what about freedom of choice. If people want to go to alternative therapists well let them. They have just as much right to go to a chiropractor as Simon Singh has to express his opinions.
I don’t agree with the action the BCA has chosen but also I don’t like to see so called scientific minded people calling others, who happen to choose alternative therapies, as idiots and stupid.
Calling people names is just childish. Lets all act like the adults we are.
And as for this fund. I hope that once you donate to his fund you could possibly donate money to other charities. Perhaps a few medical ones. They certainly need a bit of extra cash.
Don’t let this sidetrack you from real issues that threaten science such as government funding or rather the lack of it.

]]> By: Simon Singh battles England’s amboguous libel laws « lightbucket http://nickcohen.net/2009/05/20/simon-singh-and-the-battle-for-free-speech/#comment-1275 Wed, 10 Jun 2009 14:37:10 +0000 http://nickcohen.net/?p=705#comment-1275 [...] Cohen followed up with a blog post, and responded to Ben Goldacre’s message “Brothers and sisters in nerdiness, we stand [...]

]]> By: Ross Burns http://nickcohen.net/2009/05/20/simon-singh-and-the-battle-for-free-speech/#comment-1214 Tue, 26 May 2009 08:42:15 +0000 http://nickcohen.net/?p=705#comment-1214 In a national newspaper’s Events guide it has Ben Goldacre in London, discussing Bad Science, this coming Thursday evening.
If his message to last week’s meeting is anything to go by then he’ll be in a fighting shape as comparably good as Darren Barker’s for it.
Something to look forward to.

Elsewhere, in a Cumbrian newspaper on the same evening, we have:
Silloth’s Young Farmers Association (YFA) are continuing their week-long annual Hay Festival,
(the more twine the merrier!) it cheerfully adds.

And, also, on the Events page is: ‘Frying tonight!’

But not what, where, who, or why?

]]> By: Fabio P.Barbieri http://nickcohen.net/2009/05/20/simon-singh-and-the-battle-for-free-speech/#comment-1170 Fri, 22 May 2009 19:26:19 +0000 http://nickcohen.net/?p=705#comment-1170 The ghastly Eady is a public danger. If anything can be done to stop him and people like him silencing debate and protecting the guilty – or even the merely foolish – I’m in all the way.

]]> By: AndyD http://nickcohen.net/2009/05/20/simon-singh-and-the-battle-for-free-speech/#comment-1156 Fri, 22 May 2009 03:18:26 +0000 http://nickcohen.net/?p=705#comment-1156 As I understand it, the “translated” holocaust piece would face the same dilemma.

See “David Irving vs Deborah Lipstadt” where it appears Lipstadt did indeed have to prove the holocaust happened after labelling Irving a denier – as I understand it.

(Suddenly I find myself always wanting to qualify everything as a personal opinion based on my understanding of the issue)

]]> By: Ross Burns http://nickcohen.net/2009/05/20/simon-singh-and-the-battle-for-free-speech/#comment-1152 Thu, 21 May 2009 10:34:39 +0000 http://nickcohen.net/?p=705#comment-1152 Mr Singh’s intention will be to help the lives of people. Why stop that?
I hope Mr Singh will succeed; and he’s only a young man: it will be a sad day ahead when he cannot fulfill what he does, which is acclaimed, because this looming, ludicrous law and those versed in it follow him everywhere, squeaking behind justice Eady.
Libel tourism, Nick Cohen’s posting: necessary reading!

]]> By: Andy Lewis http://nickcohen.net/2009/05/20/simon-singh-and-the-battle-for-free-speech/#comment-1151 Thu, 21 May 2009 08:16:34 +0000 http://nickcohen.net/?p=705#comment-1151 One thing occurs to me, after a few days reflection, is that it could just be that, like many other people, that Eady actually believes that Chiropractors offer a genuine and respected form of therapy rather than the cult-like and pseudoscientific nonsense it really is. That may explain why he appeared to have pre-prepared his judgement and concluded that Singh was accusing them of ‘quackery’.

Yes. Chiropractic is quackery. And this ruling will not allow Simon to defend his words on those grounds.

]]> By: Francis Sedgemore - On chiropractic http://nickcohen.net/2009/05/20/simon-singh-and-the-battle-for-free-speech/#comment-1149 Wed, 20 May 2009 16:24:55 +0000 http://nickcohen.net/?p=705#comment-1149 [...] Mr Justice Eady is a tit. [...]

]]> By: Simon-Aid 2009: The Momentum’s Growing! « God knows what… http://nickcohen.net/2009/05/20/simon-singh-and-the-battle-for-free-speech/#comment-1148 Wed, 20 May 2009 14:54:01 +0000 http://nickcohen.net/?p=705#comment-1148 [...] second talk was by the journalist Nick Cohen (who has now also blogged about the event) and took a very different tack to Dave Gorman’s. Rather than focusing on Simon’s case [...]

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