(timesonline.co): England’s draconian libel laws pose a danger to public health because they are interfering with the research published by medical journals, senior editors and scientists said. Doctors are being denied access to critical medical information because academic publications have refused to accept important papers for fear of being sued, they said. The risk of expensive libel actions is also stopping journal editors from retracting studies they suspect of being flawed or fraudulent, because such action could potentially be interpreted as defamatory.
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