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This is The Telegraph, a conservative UK paper that published such Covid-19 misinformation as the common cold conveying immunity against Covid-19 and the lockdo
by JohnTHaller 5y ago
This is The Telegraph, a conservative UK paper that published such Covid-19 misinformation as the common cold conveying immunity against Covid-19 and the lockdowns were dumb and herd immunity was the way. Being devoid of fact is a feature not a bug. Fluff pieces like this from biased news sources known for spreading misinformation have no place on Hacker News.
- finite_jest 5y agoI think I found the article you are referring to. [1] I don't think that's a good example of misinformation. Here's a recent report by Reuters on the same topic. [2] I agree that The Telegraph is not the most reliable source of the news [3], but that doesn't make anything they report on automatically false. [1]: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/science-and-disease/exposure-common-cold-could-provide-immunity-covid-19/ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/science-and-diseas... [2]: https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/t-cells-common-colds-can-provide-protection-against-covid-19-study-2022-01-10/ https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/... [3]: https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/daily-telegraph/ https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/daily-telegraph/