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Mammograms don’t increase risk of dying from breast cancer; they reduce it
Claim:
Mammograms don’t prevent cancer; mammograms contribute to cancer development
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Source: Facebook, TikTok, Barbara O'Neill, 2024-05-22 -
Mostly accuratePrioritizing plant-based foods in our diet can benefit climate and health, but Forbes article missed some key details
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Prioritizing plant-based foods and reducing overconsumption of animal-based protein is healthier and reduces greenhouse gas emissions
Source: Forbes, Simi Thambi, 2024-08-28 -
UnsupportedComputational study didn’t demonstrate that COVID-19 vaccine boosters increase mortality in care homes
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“COVID-19 mRNA boosters directly contributed to the deaths of millions of nursing home residents worldwide”
Source: The People’s Voice, Baxter Dmitry, 2024-10-20 -
Flawed reasoningBlaze article badly misrepresents study of Greenland's Jakobshavn Glacier
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[O]ne of the previously fastest shrinking glaciers in the world is growing again, calling into question the narrative that rapid climate change [...] poses a significant threat to the existence of the human race
Source: The Blaze, Chris Enloe, 2019-03-26 -
Mostly accurateLong-term remission of an HIV patient who received a stem cell transplant is the closest so far to a full HIV cure
Claim:
The second person ever has been cured from HIV
Source: BBC, IFLScience, Michelle Roberts, Tom Hale, 2020-03-10 -
Flawed reasoningGlobal warming and the COVID-19 pandemic are unrelated issues: one will not protect us from the other
Claim:
If we want to protect ourselves from the coronavirus, we must back away from all the climate change efforts we've been making
Source: LifeSite News, Andrea Widberg, 2020-03-17 -
IncorrectEating alkaline food cannot prevent or cure COVID-19
Claim:
The pH for the coronavirus varies from 5.5 to 8.5. What we need to do to defeat the coronavirus is to consume more alkaline foods above the virus’ pH level.
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1.7Very highAnalysis of "What science can tell us about the links between global warming and massive heat waves"
…range of temperatures (standard deviation) or shape of the curve changes as well. Climate is the typical character outlined by this curve (probability density function) describing the probabilities, whereas weather…
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1.6Very highAnalysis of "Australia’s Great Barrier Reef has worst coral die-off ever"
…with local human population density, Nature scientific reports. Notes: [1] See the rating guidelines used for article evaluations. [2] Each evaluation is independent. Scientists’ comments are all published at…
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AccurateHeat waves in the U.S. have already become more frequent and intense due to global warming
Claim:
the U.S. is shattering high temperature records far more frequently than it is shattering low temperature records
Source: The Washington Post, Chris Mooney, 2016-07-21