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The European Journal of Public Health Advance Access originally published online on November 2, 2009
The European Journal of Public Health 2009 19(6):574-575; doi:10.1093/eurpub/ckp175
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© The Author 2009. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the European Public Health Association. All rights reserved.

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The Singh libel case and ‘alternative medicine’

Luc Bonneux

NIDI, Den Haag, The Netherlands

Correspondence: Dr Luc Bonneux, NIDI, PB 11650, 2502 AR Den Haag, The Netherlands, e-mail: bonneux@nidi.nl

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   The Singh case
 
Simon Singh, a physicist and a leading science writer, authored bestsellers on Fermat's last theorem, the Big Bang and code breaking. Recently he co-authored with Edzard Ernst, Professor of Complementary Medicine, a book on alternative therapies entitled Trick or Treatment?. When published in April 2008, Singh wrote an article for The Guardian which coincided with chiropractic awareness week, ‘Beware the spinal trap’. The article has been retracted by The Guardian but is easily googled, republished widely on the web by a band of bloggers, publishers and sceptical organizations.

Chiropractic therapy was invented by faith healer Daniel David Palmer in 1890s America. Inspired by the miraculous recovery of a deaf man whom he treated by ‘racking’ his back, Palmer thought that 99% of all diseases are caused by nerves trapped by misaligned vertebrae, causing . . . [Full Text of this Article]


   Fair trials
 

   British libel laws
 

   Alternative medicine, conventional health problem
 

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