Video: Simon Singh on libel tourism and the ‘chilling effect’ on science journalism

Simon Singh, the science writer facing a libel action brought against him by the British Chiropractic Association, attended this week’s launch of the Index on Censorship (IOC) and English Pen’s proposed libel bill.

In this short video he talks about the current case of cardiologist Peter Wilmshurst (something Journalism.co.uk is looking into) and the chilling effect of libel on science writing:

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