[pmden]

It's a newspaper - not an academic journal. Interesting figures, even if not directly related (or just flat-out misleading), are commonplace.

[lovemenot]

It's not just any newspaper, it's The Telegraph. Where nothing is ever as good as it used to be. Apparently now dope too.

[sambe]

Do you think newspapers should not be called out on misleading information? It seems to me that not highlighting the good vs bad articles/papers is a net loss for public discourse.

[madaxe_again]

The standard argument trotted out is that it's "up to the reader" to discern when they're being fed codswallop - because to tell them that they're reading nonsense would be an affront to their intelligence.