More libel chill
unknown wrote an interesting post today on
Here’s a quick excerpt
In part 451 of an ongoing series on free speech - a new outrage, this time in the UK. The Society of Homeopaths has launched action against the Guardian newspaper for printing the following:
There are some aspects of quackery that are harmless - childish even - and there are some that are very serious indeed. On Tuesday, to my great delight, the author Jeanette Winterson launched a scientific defence of homeopathy in these pages. She used words such as “nano” meaninglessly, she suggested that there is a role for homeopathy in the treatment of HIV in Africa, and she said that an article in the Lancet today will call on doctors to tell their patients that homeopathic “medicines” offer no benefit.
[T]here is nothing even slightly technical or complicated about the evidence on homeopathy, or indeed anything, when it is clearly explained.
And there is the rub. Because Winterson tries to […]
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