Poynter Training "SciFacts: Fact-Checking Claims About Science"
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Environmental impacts of the fossil fuel industry outweigh those of EV metal mining, experts say
…trade and political dependence. Energy Research & Social Science. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. (2022) Transport. In: Climate Change 2022: Mitigation of Climate Change. Peters et al. (2021) On the…
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Offshore wind turbines aren’t louder than high winds or passing ships, no evidence they harm whales
…Biology. Allison and Bassett. (2015) Climate change in the oceans: Human impacts and responses. Science. Peters et al. (2022) On the rise: Climate change in New Zealand will cause sperm…
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Climate misinformation video reaches broad audience with help from Youtube recommendation algorithm
…Peterson et al (2008) The myth of the 1970s global cooling scientific consensus, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 2 Broecker (1975) Climatic Change: Are we on the brink of…
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InaccurateArticle by OffGuardian, ZeroHedge claiming to list 30 facts about COVID-19 contains multiple inaccurate and misleading statements
Claim:
“There has been NO unusual excess mortality” related to COVID; “Lockdowns do not prevent the spread of disease”; “Masks don’t work”; “PCR tests were not designed to diagnose illness”
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MisleadingViral memes listing COVID-19 topics about which authorities were allegedly “wrong” rehash debunked misinformation
Claim:
We were lied about “COVID-19 numbers”, treatments, natural immunity, and the origin of the virus; COVID-19 vaccines and control measures “didn’t work”
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Flawed reasoningMask use does not increase risk of COVID-19 as viral social media posts claim
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More people who wear masks become sick with COVID-19 compared to non-mask wearers, therefore masks don’t work or are making us ill
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Viral video promotes the unsupported hypothesis that SARS-CoV-2 is a bioengineered virus released from a Wuhan research laboratory
…had actively published research on viruses (though not coronaviruses) prior to 2012. From 2006 to 2011, she was the director of the non-profit Whittemore Peterson Institute, a medical research institute…