Here's a bit of unexpected good news: the British Chiropractic Association have dropped their libel case against Simon Singh. This is a refreshing victory for good sense and rationality (and science) and comes on the heels of Singh's victory in his preliminary appeal a couple of weeks ago which allowed the prospect of a full libel hearing, something the BCA obviously decided would not be in their best interests, what with it inevitably focusing on the evidence for and (more importantly) against the claims they make for their treatments.
Feel free to offer your congratulations at Sense About Science; once you've done that pop over to Libel Reform and add your name to the petition. As Singh rightly says, his success in this case has come despite the current libel laws, and at the cost of a wholly unreasonable amount of time and money despite his manifestly obvious rightness in every aspect of what he wrote.
The BCA's typically weaselly and disingenuous statement on the matter is here.
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