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Keep Libel Out Of Science

Posted by Atticus on Monday, February 15, 2010,

Something a little different for this update.
For sometime now RiPA has been following the law suit against Simon Singh by the British Chiropractic Association (BCA). But first, lets speak a bit more about who Simon is.

After completing a PhD in particle physics, Simon Singh joined the BBC and worked as a director and producer on programmes such as Tomorrow's World and Horizon. He has also presented programmes on Radio 4, BBC4 and Channel 4. He is best known as the author of Fermats Last Theore...


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Goodbye Jan, Hello Feb

Posted by Atticus on Monday, February 1, 2010,

So what better way to introduce February than with a catch up of the '10:23' campaign.
For those that are not familiar with the '10:23', let me briefly summerise it.

At 10:23am on January 30th, more than four hundred homeopathy sceptics nationwide took part in a mass homeopathic 'overdose' in protest at Boots' continued endorsement and sale of homeopathic remedies, and to raise public awareness about the fact that homeopathic remedies have nothing in them.

Sceptics and consumer rights activis...


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