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Mail on Sunday apologises for accusing GP and nutritionist of spreading fake news about statins

BMJ 2024; 387 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.q2261 (Published 15 October 2024) Cite this as: BMJ 2024;387:q2261
  1. Clare Dyer
  1. The BMJ

The publishers of the Mail on Sunday have apologised and agreed to pay substantial libel damages and costs to a GP and a nutritional scientist whom the paper accused of knowingly making false statements about statins.1

The settlement by Associated Newspapers followed a damning High Court judgment in June by Mr Justice Nicklin, the senior libel judge, after a trial on preliminary issues in the case.2 He ruled that the paper’s “takedown” of three commentators in March 2019—GP Malcolm Kendrick, Zoë Harcombe, a nutritional scientist with a PhD, and cardiologist Aseem Malhotra—was based on a …

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