by Aaron Murray

For those of you who are familiar with the plight of Simon Singh,we finally have some good news! Simon has won his appeal that his 2008 blog on the Guardian website calling into question some claims of the British Chiropractic Association,was indeed a statement of opinion,not fact.

Singh had wrote that the evidence for chiropractors claims to be able to treat childhood conditions,such as asthma and colic,was lacking in the evidence department. Of course,instead of stepping up to the plate and showing the evidence,the BCA decided to sue Simon for Libel and claimed that he was basically calling them conscious frauds. In May of last year the High Court ruled in favor of the BCA interpretation of the article,saying that it indeed implied an accusation of conscious dishonesty. In February of this year Simon appealed that decision on the grounds of fair comment and yesterday the Court of Appeals ruled in Simon’s  favor.

The BCA isn’t quitting yet though,and is thinking about taking the case all the way to the supreme court to “…uphold its good name and protect its reputation, honesty and integrity.”.

I think its time for the BCA to put up or shut up and show their evidence that THEIR “treatments”  instead of suing people who point out their lack of evidence for it.