chard Horton, has quite a history…
- on Covid, publishing that group letter organised by the zoologist Peter Daszak on the origins of the Sars-CoV-2 coronavirus ‘strongly condemn[ing] conspiracy theories’ about a lab leak, and praising China on state-owned broadcaster China Central Television for how ‘tremendously decisively’ the Chinese Communist party had handled the pandemic.
- on MMR, publishing Andrew Wakefield – not retracted for twelve years.
- publishing a letter in Lancet in 2014 from a number of pro-Palestinian activists which the Israeli Ministry of Health characterised as “bordering on blood libel".
- the case of Sir Roy Meadows.
- railing against "the axis of Anglo-American imperialism" at a 2006 rally in Manchester.
Still editor-in-chief though.
Added: more on this from Jerry Coyne.
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