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Old 29-07-2009, 10:29 AM   #1 (permalink)
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Sense About Science

Not normally one for petitions and stuff but this case

Sense About Science | Sign up now to keep the libel laws out of science!

highlights our terrible libel laws and how they can be used against Scientists, Journalists et al.
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Old 29-07-2009, 11:04 AM   #2 (permalink)
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Not normally one for petitions and stuff but this case

Sense About Science | Sign up now to keep the libel laws out of science!

highlights our terrible libel laws and how they can be used against Scientists, Journalists et al.
I've been following this for a while in New Scientist and Private Eye. The UK is in serious danger of becoming a land where the truth is successfully buried when it suits those with power and money, no matter how important the truth may be.
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becoming ? ? ?

it is already !
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For those that take the position of respecting peoples beliefs or ideas and wonder why some people will not let things lay - this is exactly the type of thing that doing nothing and saying nothing leads to.
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