The curious double standards of Simon Singh

I know I promised that I wasn't going to post about that ruddy Horizon documentary again but I'm afraid my hand has been forced by Simon Singh.

Yes, Simon Singh as in the popular mathematician and bestselling author of Fermat's Last Theorem. And also, more germanely to this story, the recent victim of an expensive libel action brought against him by the British Chiropractic Association (BCA). The BCA eventually dropped its action – but not before Singh had run up £200,000 in legal costs. Though some it his lawyers will be able to claim back, he's still likely to lose £60,000 of his own money as a result of his brave, principled decision to fight the case rather than cave in earlier.

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