The British Chiropractic Association may need to hire a chiropractor to work on themselves: they’re shoveling so hard they’re likely to hurt their backs.
Fifteen month ago, the BCA sued journalist Simon Singh for libel after he called some of their claims "bogus". Mind you, they didn’t say, "He’s wrong and here’s the stack of scientific tests that have been performed to show just how chiropractic works". They simply sued. In the UK, libel laws are such that defending yourself against them is time-consuming and very costly, a fact the BCA could not help but understand when they sued Singh. One might almost call this action "spineless".
After an uproar on the internet as well as in the media — with some predictable results — the BCA is now, over a year later, suddenly claiming there is evidence to back them up, and issued a press release about it. I ...
