Court
orders British Medical Journal to pay £100,000 to leading vitamin researcher
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In July 2006 the British
Medical Journal (BMJ) published a highly defamatory article alleging that Dr
Matthias Rath, a leading vitamin researcher, was standing trial in a German
court for “fraud” in relation to the death of a young cancer patient. The BMJ’s
article also discredited Dr Rath and the effect of treatments which result from
his research in the field of natural control of cancer.
None of these allegations
were true.
Because the biased nature
of the article clearly had only one benefactor - the multi-billion pound market
for pharmaceutical cancer drugs, including chemotherapy - Dr Rath felt that he
had no option but to file a lawsuit against the BMJ seeking a retraction, an
apology and payment of damages for the harm done by its publication.
In September 2006, after
a British judge stated that these false accusations were among the severest
possible, the BMJ finally published a full retraction of the article and an
apology to Dr Rath.
Subsequently, in early
2007 - perhaps fearing that the scientifically-established facts about the
health benefits of vitamins would be heard in court and thereby widely
publicised - the BMJ decided to file an application asking the court to rule
that Dr Rath should accept an out-of-court settlement of £100,000.
As a result, and in
return for the BMJ paying these staggering damages to Dr Rath, the court has
now allowed it to avoid the full case being heard in front of a judge.
The Case of the
British Medical Journal http://www4.dr-rath-foundation.org/THE_FOUNDATION/bmj_timeline.htm
http://www4.dr-rath-foundation.org/pdf-files/future-london-march07.pdf
http://www4.dr-rath-foundation.org/
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