Simon Singh

Simon Lehna Singh, MBE (born 1st January 1964) is a British physicist, broadcaster and author. His works include: Fermat's Last Theorem (1997); The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography (2000); Big Bang: The Origin of the Universe (2005); and ''Trick or Treatment? Alternative Medicine on Trial'' (with Edzard Ernst, 2008). He has a PhD in particle physics from Cambridge University.

Singh was sued by the British Chiropractic Association in 2009 for arguing in a 2008 newspaper article that the organisation "happily promotes bogus treatments". The case attracted much media attention and led to a campaign by the charity Sense About Science. It also triggered a lengthy series of complaints against the health claims of as many as one in four UK chiropractors. The BCA subsequently lost the case and the article was re-instated on the website of the Guardian newspaper. The BCA attempted to clarify its reasons for launching the unsuccessful legal action two years later.