The Wall Street Journal fails to acknowledge that 2016 was the warmest year on record
Claim:
no one really knows if last year (2016) was a (global temperature) record
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Source: The Wall Street Journal, Wall Street Journal editorial, 2017-01-19 -
Flawed reasoningOxygen in the air doesn’t prevent people from getting tetanus through cuts with dirty or rusty objects; the vaccine is important to prevent infection
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“The tetanus bacteria is an anaerobic bacteria. That means that it cannot live in the presence of oxygen. You cannot get tetanus by stepping on a rusty nail.“
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InaccurateDiesel generators do not charge most electric vehicles
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The largest EV charging station in the world is solely powered by diesel generators.
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InaccurateFlawed speculative study incorrectly claims that mRNA COVID-19 vaccines cause neurodegenerative diseases
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“Pfizer [COVID-19] vaccine confirmed to cause neurodegenerative diseases”; “mRNA vaccines […] can integrate into the human genome”
Source: National File, Nathaniel Linderman, 2021-04-22 -
-1.7Very lowTelegraph article on climate change mixes accurate and unsupported, inaccurate claims, misleads with false balance
…is conflating temperatures at the surface with temperatures 2 miles up in the lower troposphere, which are very different things. Surface temperature records from NASA, NOAA, Hadley, Berkeley Earth, Cowtan…
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Scientific evidence doesn’t back the hype over colostrum supplements
…adult. Furthermore, colostrum supplements are typically derived from cows, and the amount of antibodies in bovine colostrum is likely to vary between products, said Amati. Moreover, supplements don’t have to…
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MisleadingWhat’s worse: lithium mining or oil extraction? Viral social media posts suggest misleading answers to complex question.
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Lithium mining for electric cars has a greater environmental impact than oil extraction for gas cars.
Source: Facebook, Social media users, 2024-08-16 -
IncorrectArticle claiming that “masks don’t work” misleads readers by inaccurately interpreting a withdrawn study and a published study conducted on U.S. Marine Corps recruits
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“Pro-mask study withdrawn after virus spread in counties analyzed by researchers”; “masks don’t work”
Source: The Blaze, Daniel Horowitz, 2020-11-16 -
Partially correctSome evidence suggests that vitamin C and D supplementation might prevent or treat respiratory infections, but their effectiveness is still being tested with COVID-19
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Vitamins C and D are now finally being adopted in the conventional treatment of SARS-CoV-2; Vitamin C at extremely high doses acts as an antiviral drug, actually killing viruses; vitamin D helps the body fight SARS-CoV-2 infection and can cut infection risk.
Source: Mercola, Joseph Mercola, 2020-04-02 -
COVID-19 PCR tests are highly sensitive and specific for the virus SARS-CoV-2; the majority of positive results are true positives; there is no evidence that budesonide or HCQ are useful as COVID-19 treatments
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Models that predicted that COVID-19 would cause 2.2 million deaths in the U.S. were intentionally false; treatments that are 100% effective are being banned for false reasons
Source: American Media Periscope, Clay Clark, Keith Rose, Richard Bartlett, Rob Marsh, 2021-05-21