A lot of words need to be eaten by people who were not just wrong about the pandemic, but dangerously wrong. They bear some responsibility for the catastrophe we now face.
A big part of the problem is that the BBC chose to interpret its duty of "impartiality" as providing airtime for people who contested scientific facts, even when they were demonstrably wrong.
It has made the same mistake with issue after issue.
And sometimes it's not a mistake.
Sometimes it's an attempt to generate noise.
If people talk about your programme, that's deemed a success, even if they do so for all the wrong reasons.
As for the motives of those who spread misleading claims, George Eliot had this to say in Middlemarch:
"there are men who don't mind about being kicked blue if they can only get talked about"
He got a massive following through this nonsense. Millions of viewers on YouTube etc
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