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    IPCC plus 20: a world warming but not frying

    Colby Cosh points out the asterisk on the latest headline about climate change

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    Mind the gap between research and reporting

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    I bet Mr. Trower has a delightful accent

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    Bittersweet justice for Singh

    Simon Singh MBE, the celebrated science writer and documentarian, has officially won his libel tilt with the British Chiropractic Association. In April 2008 Singh wrote a column for the Guardian about the persistence of pre-scientific ideas in the British chiropractic trade. What most people now think of as merely an expert form of massage began with the claim that spinal maladjustments were the source of virtually all disease in humans, and some chiropractors still believe they can cure a lot more than back and joint pain. Singh wrote: