Update: Victim-blaming Telegraph piece pulled

It looks like the Telegraph has pulled their completely inaccurate victim-blaming piece from last week, also publishing an apology that’s barely satisfying:

Owing to an editing error, our report “Women who dress provocatively more likely to be raped, claim scientists” (June 23) wrongly stated that research presented at the recent BPS conference by Sophia Shaw found that women who drink alcohol are more likely to be raped. In fact, the research found the opposite. We apologise for our error.

While the BPS has stated they’re happy with Telegraph’s actions, this is a completely lazy (and really not entirely accurate) correction. Nonetheless, it’s good this was taken down.
h/t to Anne!

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