“W.C. Fields said: ‘If at first you don’t succeed, try, try, again. Then quit. There’s no use in being a damn fool about it.’ However, as yet I don’t think I am anywhere close to giving up and I don’t think I am behaving like a ‘damn fool’.”

Science writer Simon Singh explains why he’s continuing the fight in his libel case with the British Chiropractic Association (statement and details at Sense About Science; Nature’s previous coverage)

“People such as scientist Stephen Hawking wouldn’t have a chance in the UK, where the National Health Service would say the life of this brilliant man, because of his physical handicaps, is essentially worthless”

An editorial in Investor’s Business Daily, railing against the UK’s health-care system, destroys its own credibility. (Multiple sources – Jay Bookman from the AJC is one. The editorial has now been corrected – by removing the absurd sentence).