Unlike in the United States, British libel law places the onus of a libel case not on the plaintiff but on the defendant. In fact, the British system is so broken that States like California have passed legislation to protect their residents from libel lawsuits originating in the British court system. For those who have not been following the Singh case, Simon Singh was sued by the British Chiropractic Association for libel after he correctly claimed that certain chiropractic “treatments” were, “bogus”.
Chiropractic is a type of alternative “medicine” based on demonstrably false principles with no basis in scientific medicine. When Simon Singh pointed out that the myriad of ridiculous treatments promoted by British Chiropractors are absolute rubbish, the British Chiropractic Association attempted to bully him into silence.
Today, the judge in his case noted the, “chilling effect on public debate,” of British libel laws. As can be seen in the video, the British Chiropractic Association, which removed many of the treatments that Singh called bogus from their website, still defend their use of the British court system to attempt to silence their critics.
Hopefully, this case will cause Britons to become more aware at the pseudoscientific underpinnings of Chiropractic treatments.
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