Judge: Mail on Sunday’s ‘Statin-Denying Doctors’ Report Was ‘Seriously Misleading’

A judgment in an ongoing libel case has found that a series of articles by The Mail on Sunday labelling three doctors and academics as “deadly statin deniers” were “seriously misleading.” Two of the three individuals referred to in the 2019 articles are suing the newspaper’s publisher, Associated Newspapers Limited (ANL) and its health editor, Barney Calman, for defamation at the High Court, and will proceed with their claim following Tuesday’s ruling, which dismissed The Mail on Sunday’s defence of “public interest.” Dr. Malcolm Kendrick, a GP, and obesity and food researcher Zoe Harcombe took action after the articles accused them of spreading “fake news” and causing “grave harm” through their questioning of the official consensus around statins....