To acknowledge the support from many others

I feel very honoured to receive the BMJ Editor’s Award,1 but it would be wrong not to acknowledge the tremendous support I have had.

Over the years I have had enormous support from the BMJ and its consecutive editors, Richard Smith and Fiona Godlee. I have also had invaluable help from Health Watch, particularly from John Garrow, who set up Health Watch’s support fund for my libel cases, primed it with a large personal donation, and turned up at court to provide support. I received great support in my libel cases from the Libel Reform campaigners, including Sense about Science, Simon Singh, Ben Goldacre, Hardeep Singh, and Evan Harris. Many other people, including many doctors and a few politicians from all parties provided support. I am sorry that there are too many for me to name them all.

NMT Medical instructed its lawyers to issue a libel claim against my colleague Simon Nightingale, who had been a member of the MIST (Migraine Intervention …