British Newspapers Make Stuff Up

Good read:  http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-scientific-fundamentalist/201001/british-newspapers-make-things

The journalist, the tourist, the claim and their lawyers: libel reform – Part 1

There is a very successful campaign going on to reform the law of libel. Jack Straw has already promised that the government will do something – what isn’t quite clear, but in reality the only way that the law can be changed is by an Act of Parliament.  One of the major reasons put forward [...]

Heh heh heh

You need one of these:  Creationist Claims Index.  It’s an app for your iphone which contains lots of nice cross-referenced, evidentially supported refutations of bonkers creationist claims.  Ideal for arguing in the pub.

In defence of Mr Justice Eady

Most people have heard about the libel action against Simon Singh being brought by the British Chiropractic Association.  In brief, Simon Singh wrote an article in the Guardian discussing chiropracty, in which he said, “You might think that modern chiropractors restrict themselves to treating back problems, but in fact some still possess some quite wacky [...]