Seconds out, round two
Or possibly three. Or four. Anyway, some excellent write-ups of the encounter between Simon Singh (huzzah!) and the BCA (boo!) today at the Royal Courts of Justice are available from Jack of Kent, Crispian Jago and Padraig Reidy at Index on Censorship, and I very definitely commend them to the house.
I want to quote something quoted by Jack from Simon’s defence QC:
“Scientific controversies must be settled by the methods of science rather than by the methods of litigation…More papers, more discussion, better data, and more satisfactory models-not larger awards of damages-mark the path toward superior understanding of the world around us.”
Underwager v Salter, 22 F.3d 730
A slightly shorter version is Professor Frizzelle’s Instant Classic:
Let’s hear your evidence not your legal muscle
Quite.
xD.
Quite.
