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Simon Singh To Appeal In UK Court Today

Posted by kdawson on from the words-you-never-heard-in-the-bible dept.

TACD writes "Simon Singh, author, television presenter and known critic of pseudoscience, is in court today appealing the decision made against him last May over his use of the term 'bogus' to describe the methods used by the British Chiropractic Association. Today's decision could have far-reaching implications for the movement to reform Britain's horrifically outdated libel laws (that even America is making moves to protect its citizens against), and to begin taking steps to elevate Britain above the likes of China when it comes to open debate and freedom of speech."

6 of 213 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Summary writer is a full blown moron by bsDaemon · · Score: 4, Funny

    I know! Britain has *just as much* freedom of speech as China does!

  2. Re:Summary writer is a full blown moron by Conspiracy_Of_Doves · · Score: 5, Funny

    Hyperbole, Motherfucker! DO YOU SPEAK IT?

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  3. Re:Summary writer is a full blown moron by TACD · · Score: 4, Funny

    Jesus Christ all this talk of hyperbole makes me want to shoot a nuclear rocket through my fucking head.

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  4. Re:Judge not impressed by Eil · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's probably hard to be impressed by anything at all when your formal title and name works out to be Lord Chief Justice Lord Judge.

  5. Re:Incestuous snakes on an incestuous plane by Cederic · · Score: 3, Funny

    Indeed.

    "You motherfucker!"
    "Yeah, but it was your mother. She was a lousy lay though"

  6. Re:More Importantly by madprof · · Score: 2, Funny

    Did you read the book or did you just scan every other word in each sentence?