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…As part of the International Fact-Checking Week and the UC Merced Library’s “Be Aware: Elevate Your News Evaluation” exhibit, we invite you to join us for a talk by Dr….
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Sea level rise could reach six or seven feet by the year 2100.
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“We have 21,000 cases of myocarditis and climbing. […] Under no circumstances, should a young person ever receive one of these vaccines”
…Telegraph both published articles that misrepresented the studies they purported to report – according to the authors of the studies themselves! This is a clear violation of journalistic ethics (see,…
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Sugar causes cancer; eliminating sugar from the diet can cure cancer
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“Dr. Malone is the inventor of mRNA vaccines”
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Neither the rate nor the magnitude of the reported late twentieth century surface warming (1979–2000) lay outside normal natural variability.
There are some aspects of climate science that are clear-cut. It is, for instance, “unequivocal that human influence has warmed the atmosphere, ocean and land,” according to the Intergovernmental Panel…
