Why the chiropractors sued Simon Singh

When the science writer said the British Chiropractic Association "happily promotes bogus treatments," the group had to react, its newsletter says (PDF). "For years, chiropractic had been castigated in a succession of critical articles, but here was a published article which had explicitly named a chiropractic association and had made defamatory comments about it," its president writes. Singh's co-author Edzard Ernst responds in the Guardian.

March 1, 2012

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