Scientists lose cold fusion libel case
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Prominent Canadian researcher loses libel case against documentary makers.
A formerly renowned researcher in the field of nutrition and immunology has lost his court bid to win damages from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation over a 2006 documentary. The programme alleged that Ranjit Kumar Chandra never conducted published studies into the immune benefits of baby formula and other studies that found a protective effect of multivitamins on cognition and infection in ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Nature
سال: 1996
ISSN: 0028-0836,1476-4687
DOI: 10.1038/380369b0