Photo via Wired You may have heard of Simon Singh long before his name rose to the top of the list of those championing sound science: He’d written two bestselling books, Fermat’s Enigma and the Big Bang . Despite the wide range of subject matter contained in those books, the topic that ended up casting him into controversy was much different — a seemingly benign newspaper article about some of the pitfalls of alternative medicine. He ended up defending his career from a powerful group, the British Chiropractic Association, who sued him for li… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Dispatch from the Front Lines of a War on Science
