Stupid people will read this kind of nonsense and take it seriously, but they won't read ET, so it's probably not even worth deconstructing.
I'm reliably depressed by the level of ignorance about basic science among otherwise intelligent people I talk to here.
Media background - Torygraph sales have been slipping recently, so sensationalism is part of a deliberate attempt to go tabloid and capture some of the rabid and frothing angry market more usually served by the Daily Mail.
Said endeavour being ably assisted by the recruitment of senior editorial staff and columnists from the Mail over the past few years. Private Eye tracks this sort of thing in their 'Street of Shame' column and has revised their nickname for the paper to the 'Maily Telegraph' to reflect this development.
The article in question looks to me like sloppiness and misreporting rather than active anti-science propaganda (although the way they responded to being told they were wrong was notably graceless and truculent). There's plenty of anti-science to be found in the Telegraph's back catalogue however - they regularly give a platform to the preposterous Viscount Monckton for instance.
Regards Luke -- #include witty_sig.h
