Lopullinen sinetti Malcolm Kendrickin ja Zoe Harcomben voitolle oikeustaistelussa
Lähetetty: To Joulu 05, 2024 11:22 am
Kolesterolikonnat yrittivät tuhota Malcolm Kendrickin ja Zoe Harcomben maineet ja urat leimaamalla heidät massamurhaajiksi koska heidän kirjoituksensa ovat voineet saada jotkut luopumaan statiinien käytöstä. Kendrick ja Harcombe haastoivat törkeän häväistysartikkelin julkaisseen Mail on Sundayn oikeuteen ja voittivat. Lainaan vuosien oikeustaistelun päätteeksi tänään julkistettua tiedotetta:
Press Release
Date: 5 December 2024
The Mail on Sunday apologises and pays substantial damages to doctor and academic in “statins” case
Dr Zoë Harcombe PhD and Dr Malcolm Kendrick have secured a full apology, substantial damages and their legal costs from the publisher of The Mail on Sunday, as their long-running libel claims come to a successful conclusion.
The case related to articles published in March 2019, containing allegations that Dr Harcombe and Dr Kendrick had made knowingly false statements about the cholesterol-lowering drug, statins; and that they had thereby caused large numbers of people not to take statins, causing harm to public health.
A statement in open Court, read today on behalf of the Claimants, recorded that these allegations were and are completely untrue, as The Mail on Sunday has now acknowledged. Dominic Garner of Carter-Ruck told the Court that in particular, “neither Dr Harcombe nor Dr Kendrick is a challenger or a ‘denier’ of scientific fact, or a purveyor of lies about cholesterol or statins”. To the contrary, the Court heard that the two Claimants “have always been passionate believers in evidence-based science and open scientific debate, who defend the principle that impartiality and objectivity are called for in the evaluation of scientific evidence, including in relation to the use and prescription of statins”.