Thursday, April 01, 2010

Simon Singh (and science) WIN!

Simon Singh has won his libel appeal.

This is an enormous victory for freedom of speech and science in the UK. British libel laws strongly favour the plaintiff, having a potential (or, in this case, very real) stymying effect on public scientific discourse—which may often be very critical.

1 comments:

Helena Neto said...

I know these are quite old, and that you might get this a lot, but these:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FGBDqUmvvY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owFhciLJpEw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5mZgwPWscM

just made my life. (And I'm sorry my comment as nothing to do with the blog post)