Mail on Sunday articles that accused three commentators of being “statin deniers” were misinformed, ȷudge rules

The Mail on Sunday’s “takedown” of three commentators whom the newspaper accused of being “statin deniers” was based on a fundamentally unbalanced editorial process and riddled with misinformation, a High Court judge has ruled.1The newspaper attacked Malcolm Kendrick, a GP, Zoe Harcombe, a writer and speaker on nutritional science with a PhD, and Aseem Malhotra, a cardiologist, for being purveyors of fake news and scare stories on statins that it said had caused harm on a scale worse than that of the MMR vaccine scandal. Kendrick and Harcombe sued Associated Newspapers, publishers of the Mail on Sunday, and its health editor, Barney Calman, for libel over the March 2019 articles.The main article was headed, “Deadly propaganda of the STATIN DENIERS,”2 and an editorial was published under the headline, “There is a special place in hell for the doctors who claim statins don’t work.”3In his judgment after a trial on preliminary…
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