So the UK has its own Tucker Carlson, in the shape of Toby Young. Last January he got caught telling a whopper about the virus.
The Daily Telegraph must publish a correction over a “significantly misleading” column written by Toby Young, press regulator Ipso has ruled.
The July 2020 article claimed the common cold could provide “natural immunity” to Covid-19 and London was “probably approaching herd immunity”.
But on Thursday Ipso found the paper had “failed to take care not to publish inaccurate and misleading information”.
About a pandemic that kills.
I still find it hard to believe that people happily spout off on medical issues in ways that encourage people to catch a lethal virus, for the sake of politics or attention or laughs or all three.
He’s still doing it.
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They’ve spent decades tolerating the uncritical promotion of homeopathy and acupuncture, within the health care system. Seems a lot of media consider ‘health news’ to be the domain of little puff pieces.
Oh, that asshole.
I still remember when the producers of Top Chef decided to bring him on as a judge for one of the early seasons. This was back when Simon Cowell was on American Idol, and I think they thought, “we’ll get a snarky British guy, too!”
He was awful. It was so clear that he wrote a bunch of “witty” one-line putdowns in advance and then waited for a chance to spew them out at Judges’ Table, and had nothing else to contribute. And just a horrible fit for the show, because Top Chef isn’t about shitting on the contestants. Thankfully, they replaced him after a season or two.