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{ Monthly Archives } December 2009

Simon Singh

Singh is a well-known critic of alternative medicine. For the last 18 months his life has been made a misery by a libel suit from the British Chiropractic Association. On 19 April 2008 he wrote in the Guardian:
The British Chiropractic Association (BCA) claims that their members can help treat children with colic, sleeping and feeding [...]

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Simon Jenkins

Simon Jenkins is one of my favourite columnists. But I could not understand an article he wrote for the Guardian last week about the banking crisis, ending up:
I find it simply incredible that a chancellor can take over a trillion pounds of public money, some of it in secret, without giving a remotely plausible account [...]