英国整脊治疗协会因为2008年《卫报》发表的一篇探讨“伪疗法”的文章而对科普作家西蒙·辛格提出的诉讼在此次运动中起了最大的作用。
The science case that probably played the most significant role in the campaign was a suit filed by the British Chiropractic Association against science writer Simon Singh for an article he published in The Guardian in 2008, in which he discussed “bogus treatments.”