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16818 | A salesclerk at Hobby Lobby who needs contraception … is not going to get that service through her employer’s health care plan because her employer doesn’t think she should be using contraception. | "Clinton said that ""a salesclerk at Hobby Lobby who needs contraception … is not going to get that service through her employer’s health care plan because her employer doesn’t think she should be using contraception."" There’s reason to believe that future court decisions could allow companies to forgo payment for all... | false | Abortion, National, Health Care, Legal Issues, Women, Hillary Clinton, | "By now, lots of major political figures have weighed in on the decision in Burwell vs. Hobby Lobby, a landmark Supreme Court case. A 5-4 majority ruled that a closely held, private corporation, such as the craft retailer Hobby Lobby, could decline on religious grounds to pay for certain kinds of contraceptives otherwi... |
23147 | Republican candidate for governor Nathan Deal fought to weaken Georgia's rape shield law. | Ad: Nathan Deal tried to weaken rape shield law in 1991 | mixture | Georgia, Criminal Justice, Women, Roy Barnes, | "It's the most incendiary TV ad in the race for governor so far. An empty Volvo station wagon sits in a desolate parking lot. Its alarm pulses. The driver's side door hangs open. Groceries litter the ground. ""It was my niece,"" a woman's voice says. ""If Nathan Deal had won his fight to weaken the rape shield law, and... |
13261 | With her solution, terrorists can still today — and by the way ISIS knows it, they have been advertising it — buy guns online and at gun shows in the United States of America. | "Hassan said the Islamic State knows its followers can buy firearms ""online and at gun shows"" and is ""advertising it."" An interview in the New York Times with a former Islamic State recruit shows group members acknowledge American recruits can buy guns, so long as they don’t have a record. And a 2011 video from an ... | true | New Hampshire, Islam, Terrorism, Guns, Maggie Hassan, | "As gun policy takes a central role in New Hampshire’s U.S. Senate race, Democrat Maggie Hassan is warning that terrorists are trying to exploit federal laws to obtain firearms. Hassan brought up the point in the first televised debate against Republican incumbent Kelly Ayotte. ""With her solution, terrorists can still... |
29637 | U.S. President Donald Trump personally donated $1 million to the relief fund for the Bahamas after Hurricane Dorian. | We refer you to the White House for information about any personal action taken by the president. | false | Politics | In September 2019, shortly after Hurricane Dorian devastated the Bahamas, a rumor started to circulate on Facebook claiming that U.S. President Donald Trump had personally donated $1 million to the relief fund for the Caribbean country: This rumor is unfounded. Although verbatim copies of this message — “President Trum... |
35281 | U.S. President Donald Trump suggested during a White House briefing that injecting disinfectants could treat COVID-19. | “It wouldn’t be through injection,” Trump said. “We’re talking about through almost a cleaning, sterilization of an area. Maybe it works, maybe it doesn’t work. But it certainly has a big effect if it’s on a stationary object.” | true | Politics, COVID-19 | On April 23, 2020, social media users encountered numerous comments that claimed U.S. President Donald Trump had suggested injecting disinfectants as a cure for COVID-19 during a White House press briefing. As many of these comments included jokes instead of a link to Trump’s alleged remarks, some people were left wond... |
41034 | The new virus is not heat-resistant and will be killed by a temperature of 26/27 degrees. It hates the Sun. | There’s no evidence for this. There’s evidence that similar viruses transmit less well in the heat, but many countries with reported Covid-19 cases are experiencing temperatures higher than this. | unproven | online | If you have a runny nose and sputum, you have a common cold. These are the symptoms for the common cold, but they don’t rule out Covid-19. Coronavirus pneumonia is a dry cough with no runny nose. Some Covid-19 patients do get pneumonia, and one of the symptoms is a dry cough. A runny nose doesn’t rule out Covid-19. The... |
15152 | A majority of the men and women on this stage have previously and publicly embraced amnesty. I am the only candidate on this stage who has never supported amnesty. | "Cruz said at the second Republican debate, ""A majority of the men and women on this stage have previously and publicly embraced amnesty. I am the only candidate on this stage who has never supported amnesty."" We’ll reiterate that many of these candidates have changed their position on what to do about undocumented i... | true | Immigration, National, Ted Cruz, | "On one of the biggest issues in the 2016 Republican primary -- immigration -- Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, was nothing if not consistent during the second GOP presidential debate. Cruz, angling to be the primary field’s most hard-line candidate against illegal immigration, said at the CNN Reagan Library debate, ""A majorit... |
2912 | GSK melanoma drug combination wins accelerated U.S. approval. | A combination treatment from GlaxoSmithKline for melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer, has won accelerated approval from U.S. regulators. | true | Health News | The green light for the combined use of Tafinlar, also known as dabrafenib, and Mekinist, or trametinib, from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is the first of its kind for a form of the disease with a specific genetic profile. Both drugs are already approved for separate use but GSK believes they will have a long... |
2038 | "Women's tears send ""no sex"" message to men: study." | Women’s tears are a turnoff for men, Israeli researchers say. | true | Health News | The findings, in a study by the Weizmann Institute of Science and Wolfson Hospital near Tel Aviv on the role tears play in non-verbal communication, suggest that a chemical in women’s tears lowers men’s testosterone levels. Looking beyond any impact on sexual drive, the researchers hope their findings might one day be ... |
7717 | On abortion, Trump agenda likely leads to Supreme Court, not Congress. | President Donald Trump urged lawmakers in his State of the Union address to put new limits on abortion, but partisan division in the U.S. Congress means the Supreme Court likely will set the agenda on the divisive issue, as it has for decades. | true | Health News | Bolstered by Trump’s appointment of two conservative justices, the nine-member court could soon begin to pare back abortion rights, starting with a major case from Louisiana that is one of several similar pending appeals. The addition of Trump appointees Brett Kavanaugh and Neil Gorsuch could alter the conservative-maj... |
28486 | Between 2009 and 2015, the United States had a lower mass shootings death rate than several European countries. | In other words, things have become dramatically worse in the United States since the CPRC research was first published. | mixture | Politics | In the aftermath of a mass shooting in Parkland, Florida, in which a gunman killed seventeen people in February 2018, a ranking of deaths from mass shootings in various countries re-emerged on social media with the apparent intention of proving that the United States does not have a comparatively serious problem with g... |
2465 | First taste of test-tube burger declared 'close to meat'. | The world’s first laboratory-grown beef burger was flipped out of a petri dish and into a frying pan on Monday, with food tasters declaring it tasted “close to meat”. | true | Health News | Grown in-vitro from cattle stem cells at a cost of 250,000 euros ($332,000), the burger was cooked and eaten in front of television cameras to gain the greatest media coverage for the culmination of a five-year science experiment. Resembling a standard circular-shaped red meat patty, it was created by knitting together... |
29678 | FBI agent Sal Cincinelli's death is linked to the Clinton Foundation. | In sum, no evidence exists that Cincinelli’s death is linked to the Clintons or the Clinton Foundation, and the connection appears to be a fabrication by junk news sites and those parroting it on social media without evidence. At this time, the only information available is that Austin police are investigating the deat... | false | Politics | If you are experiencing distress, please contact the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-8255 or visit online here. One of the most enduring conspiracy theories around is known as the “Clinton body bags.” That theory posits that any death that can be linked to former U.S. President Bill Clinton and former... |
41653 | Spending on social care is down 8% since 2010. | Analysis by the Institute for Fiscal Studies last year said that between 2009/10 and 2016/17, councils’ spending on adult social care in England fell 8% in real terms. Newer analysis says that it fell by 6% over the same period. We’ve asked it for more information. | true | health | There are 16,481 fewer beds in hospitals since 2010. This is in the right ballpark, but it doesn’t seem to be the best comparison. It seems to compare the number of beds at different times of the year, but the number available fluctuates seasonally. Comparing July-September in 2010 and 2017, the decrease in beds availa... |
1678 | Fitness vacations favor fun, adventure over weight loss. | Fitness vacations have ventured far from the fat farm. | true | Health News | Today’s fit-focused travelers want to pair exercise with escapades and fitness with fun, whether it’s yoga among the sea turtles, bootcamp on the beach or a zumba cruise. “Fitness retreat used to mean go away and lose weight,” said Melisse Gelula, co-founder of the wellness media company Well+Good. “Now it’s just worki... |
8349 | Deaths in Singapore 'inevitable' as coronavirus spreads globally - minister. | Praised by the World Health Organisation for its efforts to prevent the coronavirus from spreading, Singapore warned on Friday that deaths in the city state would become “inevitable” as a global pandemic emerges. | true | Health News | Since erupting in China late last year, the epidemic has spread to other parts of the world with cases recently mounting in Europe and North America. “It is starting to look like a global pandemic,” said Lawrence Wong, who co-heads Singapore’s virus fighting taskforce. “It’s not going to be possible to shut ourselves o... |
29531 | An Oklahoma court ruled that forced sexual contact cannot be considered rape if the victim is intoxicated or unconscious. | "What's true: In March 2016, a criminal appellate court in Oklahoma affirmed a lower court's decision to not to bring charges of forcible sodomy or rape against an alleged assailant, because the state's laws pertaining to those crime did not cover circumstances in which the victim was intoxicated. due to the structure ... | false | Politics, oklahoma, rape | On 23 April 2016, the investigative journalism web site Oklahoma Watch reported on a March 2016 decision handed down by the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals regarding a lower court’s earlier decision not to try a rape case due to the circumstances of the case and the provisions of the state’s rape laws. The case in q... |
37749 | "Education Secretary Betsy DeVos said ""only .02 percent"" of schoolchildren would die if schools opened for the 2020-2021 school year, a figure of nearly 15,000 American children." | The claim Betsy DeVos said “only .02 percent” of American schoolkids would die should schools open across the United States for the 2020-2021 year was — at best — misattributed, as the actual figure (.1 percent) was provided reluctantly by Birx during a short but vague comment made at Pence’s behest during a July 2020 ... | false | Fact Checks, Viral Content | "On July 11 2020, the following tweet claimed that the United States Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos — in the course of arguing in favor of reopening schools during the COVID-19 pandemic — asserted that “only 0.02 percent” of American schoolchildren would die, a percentage that represented the deaths of approximatel... |
7899 | Exclusive: UK industry expects ventilator production go-ahead on Wednesday. | British industry expects the government to give the go-ahead for an emergency ventilator production plan on Wednesday that will see a number of firms join forces to tackle the coronavirus outbreak, sources close to the process told Reuters. | true | Health News | Airbus (AIR.PA), Smiths (SMIN.L), Ford (F.N) and McLaren are among firms involved in the process, and some degree of output, whether making components or complete ventilators, should ideally begin next week. “It will be upscaling, on more of an industrial scale, existing ventilator designs,” one of the sources said. Co... |
7481 | Oklahoma, Utah face scrutiny over malaria drug purchases. | Republican state leaders in Oklahoma and Utah are facing scrutiny for spending millions of dollars combined to purchase malaria drugs promoted by President Trump to treat COVID-19 patients that many other states obtained for free and that doctors warned shouldn’t be used without more testing. | true | AP Top News, Understanding the Outbreak, Malaria, Health, Oklahoma, Utah, Virus Outbreak, General News, Gary Herbert, U.S. News | While governments in at least 20 other states obtained more than 30 million doses of the drug through donations from the federal reserve or private companies, Oklahoma and Utah instead bought them from private pharmaceutical companies. Top officials in both states chalked up the decisions to “the fog of war.” Oklahoma... |
8944 | New blood test detects early stage ovarian cancer | The news release highlights this recent study of a commercially unavailable blood test to detect ovarian cancer. The study is quite small and explores whether the test detects cancer in women already known to have it. The results are too preliminary to conclude whether or not this experimental method could reliably det... | false | blood test,ovarian cancer,University of Adelaide | Cost is not mentioned and, according to the published study, the high costs of the sensors used in detecting the cancer have proven to be a major drawback. The only benefit mentioned is this: “the new test detected significant levels of the cancer glycan in blood samples from over 90% of women with stage 1 ovarian canc... |
4935 | In-home hospice volunteers focus on quality of life. | Laura Ann Waters went through a very difficult time in her life several years ago. Her 16-year-old cat had to be put to sleep. Her father-in-law passed away, followed by her own mother’s death. Then her husband passed away. | true | Goldsboro, Health, Hospice care | Having had no children, the 71-year-old had to do something to occupy her time. She remembered how hospice volunteers helped her and her husband toward the end of his life and decided that’s what she wanted to do, too. She is one of about 70 3HC (Home Health and Hospice Care) in-home hospice volunteers, who give of the... |
10609 | Industrial chemical OSR#1 used as autism treatment | "The product known as OSR #1 contains a chemical originally intended for clean-up of toxic waste at industrial sites. This story by the Chicago Tribune (which was republished by the Los Angeles Times) examines how, despite a total lack of any research on the product in humans, OSR #1 ended up being marketed as a ""diet... | true | "The story mentions that 30 capsules of OSR#1 cost $60. It would have been nice had the story also included information about the amount of active ingredient per capsule and the manufacturer’s recommended dosage. This would have allowed readers to make a better calculation as to the financial impact of treatment. This ... | |
17190 | "The Koch brothers are ""the richest people in the world. Individually, they're only fifth. Put them together they're the richest in the world." | "Reid said the Koch brothers are ""the richest people in the world. Individually they're only fifth. Put them together they're the richest in the world."" If you look at families -- which is what Reid is essentially doing -- then Charles and David Koch rank second internationally to six members of the Walton family, at... | true | National, Campaign Finance, Harry Reid, | "For weeks, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., has been using floor speeches to target Charles and David Koch, the industrialist brothers with libertarian political views who have spent generously -- and gotten others to spend generously -- to support conservative candidates and issues. In an April 2, 2014, flo... |
10585 | Healthy aging benefits may be associated with walnut consumption, according to research | This news release from the California Walnut Commission describes a study showing that a healthy diet including walnuts is associated with lower risk of impaired physical function in older women. Researchers examined data from more than 50,000 participants in the Nurses’ Health Study, a large-scale, decades-long epidem... | mixture | industry/commercial news releases | Walnuts are reasonably affordable, and most people have some idea of how much they cost. The news release does not quantify the purported benefits of including walnuts in one’s diet. It says the study “suggests that consuming 1-2 servings of walnuts per week (1/4 cup per serving) was associated with reduced risk of dev... |
34277 | Dogs can suffer chemical burns from chewing on tennis balls. | Specifically, Becker said, tennis balls can compress in a dog’s throat and then cut off their airways when they return to full size. He added, “Some dogs will rip the ball to pieces and then swallow them, creating a potentially life-threatening intestinal blockage. It’s not necessary to give up fetch. Just be sure to p... | unproven | Medical, dogs | A Houston-based dog rescue group’s warning to Facebook followers was amplified exponentially via social media after the group posted photographs of what they said were injuries to four dogs caused by exposure to a particular tennis ball brand: The shelter’s founder, Alfred Restivo, told People magazine that the incide... |
1336 | Siberian blizzards blast Britain and Ireland as Storm Emma approaches. | Snow storms from Siberia blasted Britain and Ireland on Thursday with the worst weather since 1991, trapping several hundred motorists on roads in Scotland, closing thousands of schools, grounding planes and halting trains. | true | Environment | With up to 90 cm of snow and temperatures as low as minus 10.3 Celsius in Scotland, Britain and Ireland issued their most severe red warnings which advise people to stay at home as travel is too dangerous. Dozens of people were trapped in their cars on the M80 motorway between Glasgow and Edinburgh, with several hundre... |
5418 | Social media sleuths take on mysterious herbalist Dr. Sebi. | Social media sleuths are lighting up their streams with conspiracy theories connecting the shooting death of Nipsey Hussle and an herbalist who claimed back in the 1980s that he had a cure for AIDS and other ailments. | true | Health, Social media, Entertainment, Nick Cannon, Media, Nipsey Hussle | Hussle, who was killed Sunday in Los Angeles, was reportedly working on a documentary about Dr. Sebi, who in 1985 beat New York allegations of practicing medicine without a license after his healing center ran newspaper advertisements claiming his diet of low alkaline foods cured patients with AIDS. Sebi, born Alfredo ... |
15078 | "About ""3 percent of murders and crimes are committed with guns from people who actually (legally) purchase those guns." | "Scarborough said that about ""3 percent of murders and crimes are committed with guns from people who actually (legally) purchase those guns."" Recent studies that look at prisoners who had a gun when they committed a crime found that between 3 and 11 percent purchased the weapon at a store or gun show. But the studie... | mixture | Crime, PunditFact, Guns, Joe Scarborough, | "The public debate to the shooting in Oregon so far has followed a familiar script. Some observers focus on cracks in mental health services. Some highlight families who fail to keep weapons away from disturbed sons and fathers. Others talk about background checks and reining in the firepower available to private citiz... |
22304 | "Under a House Republican appropriations bill, ""6 million seniors are deprived of meals." | Nancy Pelosi says GOP bill would deprive 6 million seniors of meals | mixture | National, Corrections and Updates, Federal Budget, Nancy Pelosi, | "CORRECTION: In the initial version of the story, we speculated that the number of people who could be deprived of meals due to the proposed cuts could range from 2 million to 4 million. However, an alert reader pointed out that we neglected to factor in the obvious reality that people eat every day, so the number of p... |
26699 | “Whole of Italy goes into quarantine.” | The Italian prime minister announced on March 9 that the country was a “red zone,” meaning people must stay home with a few exceptions. Other rules include curfews on bars and restaurants, travel restrictions and no sporting events. Schools are closed until April 3. | true | Facebook Fact-checks, Coronavirus, Bloggers, | "The coronavirus is now a pandemic, so far infecting nearly 120,000 people worldwide and killing more than 4,000. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have recommended that travelers avoid visiting Italy, among several other countries, unless it's absolutely necessary. Italy, meanwhile, is taking its own prec... |
9836 | Parents’ Latest Pick: Herbal Shampoos to Keep Away Lice | Excellent piece, putting the “problem” of head lice in perspective and raising questions about efficacy of preventive shampoos. One company spokeswoman asks, if the products didn’t work, “why would we have such a large following of repeat customers?” The story clearly asks that same question, citing lack of evidence to... | true | Wall Street Journal | The story includes the cost of some of the products in question. The story makes it clear that benefits of the lice control products have not been established. With its clear questioning of the evidence for lice control products, the story infers the harm of spending money on unproven products. The story includes some ... |
8302 | New York coronavirus hospitalizations fall, New Jersey launches nursing home probe. | The number of people hospitalized for the novel coronavirus and related deaths in New York fell to their lowest levels in more than a week, adding to evidence the hardest-hit state was controlling its spread, Governor Andrew Cuomo said on Thursday. | true | Health News | Cuomo also extended an order closing businesses and schools by two weeks until at least May 15 in coordination with other states in the region, and added details to face-mask requirements, saying New Yorkers should wear them on buses, taxis and trains. New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy, speaking at a separate news briefi... |
30384 | Coconut water can be used as an intravenous substitute for blood plasma. | To date, we have also been unable to confirm the existence of vampires — vegan, tropical, or otherwise. | false | Medical, coconut water, coconuts, pseudoscience | While “coconut water” has been promoted during the 21st century as a healthy drink, its reputed medical properties have been the subject of anecdotal claims dating back decades earlier. For example, beyond its more banal hangover-cure claims, unproven accounts have existed for decades that during World War II, British ... |
8377 | China virus hits cruise ships, carmakers, airlines and Airbus. | Thousands of passengers and crew on two cruise ships in Asian waters were placed in quarantine for China’s coronavirus on Wednesday as airlines, carmakers and other global companies counted the cost of the fast-spreading outbreak. | true | Health News | Hundreds of experts will gather in Geneva next week, on Feb. 11-12, in an attempt to find a way to fight back against the outbreak by speeding research into drugs and vaccines, the World Health Organization (WHO) said. A multinational WHO-led team would go to China “very soon”, it added. It stressed no known effective ... |
14362 | "Expanding the sale of full-strength beer and wine to grocery stores is ""good for everybody." | "A Your Choice Colorado ad says a ballot measure to expand the sale of full-strength beer and wine to grocery and big box stores will be ""good for everybody."" The economic impact study funded by large grocery retailers said the proposal would save consumers time and money, create about 200 more grocery stores, add 22... | mixture | Colorado, Alcohol, Your Choice Colorado, | "The feel-good TV ad featuring images of Colorado outdoor adventurers and happy people holding beers bottles declares it's time to ""give Coloradans what they want — real craft beer at grocery stores."" The political ad is sponsored by King Soopers, Walmart and Safeway, big chains that are backing a Colorado ballot mea... |
3647 | Dog DNA testing takes off, and generates debate. | As people peer into DNA for clues to health and heritage, man’s best friend is under the microscope, too. | true | AP Top News, Genetics, Health, North America, Sports, Dog shows, Science, Pets, U.S. News, Dogs | Genetic testing for dogs has surged in recent years, fueled by companies that echo popular at-home tests for humans, offering a deep dive into a pet’s genes with the swab of a canine cheek. More than a million dogs have been tested in little over a decade. The tests’ rise has stirred debate about standards, interpretat... |
8664 | Australia tightens social distancing rules to fight coronavirus. | Australia stepped up enforcement of social distancing rules on Saturday to contain community transmission of the novel coronavirus, implementing fines, closing beaches and threatening stricter measures if people defy pleas to stay at home. | true | Health News | The death toll from the virus rose to 14 after an elderly woman died in an aged-care facility in New South Wales (NSW) state where several residents and employees have tested positive for the virus, according to NSW health officials. The country’s total number of confirmed coronavirus cases jumped by 469 to 3,635 on Sa... |
6748 | Tribute concert of Avicii’s music to benefit mental health. | A benefit concert for suicide prevention featuring the music of the late star Avicii is being planned for Dec. 5 in Stockholm, Sweden. | true | Avicii, Mental health, Kygo, David Guetta, Health, General News, Entertainment, Suicide prevention, Sweden, Adam Lambert, Dance music, Rita Ora, Music, Concerts | Proceeds will support the work of the new Tim Bergling Foundation, named for the musician who killed himself in April 2018. His songs “Wake Me Up!,” ″Addicted to You” and the posthumous “SOS” topped the dance music charts. The concert will feature many of the singers, including Adam Lambert and Rita Ora, who were on Av... |
35140 | Donating blood requires that you be administered a free test for the COVID-19, a disease caused by the coronavirus. | However, organizations such as the American Red Cross do advise that people should not donate blood now if they know or suspect they have been exposed to the coronavirus: | false | Medical, COVID-19 | In early March 2020, as the availability and cost of testing members of the public for the COVID-19 coronavirus disease sweeping the globe was a hot issue, a widely-shared tweet offered a supposed “loophole” for obtaining such testing for free. Just volunteer to donate blood, it asserted, and the agency taking your don... |
11235 | Study: Weight-loss combo pill shows promise | Perhaps if we had not compared the CNN.com story with the LA Times piece, our comments might be more glowing. It covered a lot of the bases – addressing most of our criteria. But the Times story was framed completely differently, delivering healthy skepticism where it appears to be warranted. This story delivered a key... | true | CNN | Not applicable. The story didn’t discuss cost, but the story was clear that is a drug that has been slowed in its path to marketing approval so that is understandable. The story adequately reported on the potential benefits. It just didn’t provide the context we applauded in the LA Times story. But it did state: This s... |
33301 | A university medical school will pay you upwards of $50,000 for the donation of a testicle. | In November 2013, Las Vegas resident Mark Parisi claimed, in anticipation of appearing on an upcoming episode of TLC’s Extreme Cheapskates program, that he was hoping to garner $35,000 by participating in a medical trial during which one of his testicles would be removed and replaced by an artificial one. But that plan... | false | College, medical school | Several decades ago, those in desperate need of cash to provide for themselves or their loved ones sometimes clung to the notion that if all else failed, they could always “sell their bodies to medical science.” A common rumor that took root after World War II had it that anyone (of sound body) could arrange to sell hi... |
22717 | The number of inmates since 2000 on death row dying of natural causes has now surpassed the number of inmates executed. | What's killing inmates on Florida's death row? | true | Legal Issues, Crime, Florida, Dean Cannon, | "House Speaker Dean Cannon thinks the Florida court system overstepped its authority last year when it removed three Constitutional amendment questions from the statewide ballot. So, in 2011, he's talking about ""comprehensive court reform."" Addressing a group of nearly 50 reporters and editors at the annual pre-sessi... |
9927 | Lots of Coffee Lowers Oral Cancer Risk | "This is the kind of story that leaves consumers’ heads spinning – the ""yes, it’s good for you…no it’s not"" yin and yang of observational studies or – in this case – pooled analysis of past studies. But even if you make an argument for the value of reporting this (an argument we wouldn’t make), it’s tough to get over... | false | "Not applicable – the cost of coffee is not in question. As already stated, it’s inaccurate to talk about benefits of ""lowering risk"" with results from a study that can’t establish a causal link. If a story like this is going to promote the benefits of coffee, it should at least wink in the direction of possible harm... | |
34385 | A Michigan man said a stranger walking near his wife at a local mall could have been involved in sex trafficking. | Psychological means of control, such as threats, fraud, or abuse of the legal process, are sufficient elements of the crime. Unlike the previous federal involuntary servitude statutes (U.S.C. 1584), the new federal crimes created by the Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA) of 2000 were intended to address “subtler... | unproven | Crime, facebook trafficking rumors, human trafficking, michigan | Amid the seemingly increasing number of unproven reports of trafficking in various localities, a Michigan man’s account of a “possible sex traffic operation” was shared hundreds of times. Jacob Courtad’s 5 June 2017 Facebook post detailed his experience with a “strange man” at the Grand Traverse Mall in Traverse City: ... |
6070 | Official: 1 death linked to Legionnaires’ disease in Atlanta. | The Georgia Department of Public Health has confirmed one death linked to a Legionnaires’ outbreak at an Atlanta hotel. | true | Georgia, General News, Legionnaires disease, Atlanta, Public health | News outlets report 49-year-old Cameo Garrett died July 9 of coronary artery disease aggravated by Legionella. DeKalb County Medical Examiner Pat Bailey said Tuesday that Garrett had Legionnaires’ disease when she died. Garrett stayed at Sheraton Atlanta for a conference. Health officials say Garrett’s was one of 12 la... |
10612 | Doctors say Vytorin-cancer link can’t be ruled out | "This story attempted to provide readers with some insight about the results of recent study that a medication (ezetimibe) used to lower cholesterol may have an unforeseen side effect on cancer incidence and/or death. But the story: failed to adequately quantify the risks seen in trials (it gave no denominator, so re... | mixture | "There was no discussion of cost. The story provided several pieces of information about the benefits of treatment. The first was that the drug Vytorin did not demonstrate benefit for individuals with aortic valve disease. The second piece of information that was partially presented was that the drug Vytorin is used to... | |
8105 | Colombians scramble to get ready for coronavirus quarantine. | Thousands of Colombians were rushing to return to their home cities on Tuesday while others hurried to banks, supermarkets and other shops before the late-night start of a mandatory 19-day national quarantine meant to curb the spread of coronavirus. | true | Health News | Distressed travelers who were trapped in capital Bogota during an obligatory isolation drill over the long weekend were unsuccessfully looking for seats on buses out of the city so they could spend the quarantine at home. “I’m scared because I need to get home,” said Fernando Lopez, 50-year-old disabled man who travele... |
31091 | "The driver of the vehicle that killed one person and injured more than a dozen others at the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, is a known ""radical leftist"" supported by Hillary Clinton and George Soros." | We’ve addressed an inquiry to InfoWars for clarification, and await their reply. | false | Politics Conspiracy Theories, Alex Jones, charlottesville, newspunch.com | Days after a 12 August 2017 neo-Nazi rally in Charlottesville, Virginia — in which a white supremacist mowed down a group of counter-protesters with a car, killing one and injuring dozens — various right-leaning web sites published reports claiming that the driver was actually a left-wing, Hillary Clinton-supporting De... |
7571 | Oregon seeks volunteers for random testing for COVID-19. | Oregon will launch an ambitious COVID-19 testing program and increase contact tracing as it prepares to reopen the economy, Gov. Kate Brown said Friday. | true | Kate Brown, General News, Oregon, Science, Virus Outbreak | People will be chosen at random for testing and asked to volunteer in a partnership with Oregon Health & Science University. The governor also said some rural counties where there are almost no cases could begin reopening slowly starting May 15. “This program is a game-changer,” Brown said. “It will give us a more accu... |
7405 | Wanted: 1 million people to study genes, habits and health. | In a quest to end cookie-cutter health care, U.S. researchers are getting ready to recruit more than 1 million people for an unprecedented study to learn how our genes, environments and lifestyles interact — and to finally customize ways to prevent and treat disease. | true | AP Top News, Health, Francis Collins, Politics, North America, Environment, Business, U.S. News, Genetic Frontiers | Why does one sibling get sick but not another? Why does a drug cure one patient but only cause nasty side effects in the next? Finding out is a tall order. Today, diseases typically are treated based on what worked best in short studies of a few hundred or thousand patients. “We depend on the average, the one-size-fits... |
36554 | On the same day that First Lady Melania Trump announced a children's health and wellness initiative, U.S. President Donald Trump asked to cut the children's health insurance program, or CHIP. | Did First Lady Melania Trump Announce a Child Wellness Initiative on the Same Day President Trump Asked for CHIP Cuts? | mixture | Fact Checks, Politics | In January 2019 amid an ongoing government shutdown, a May 2018 Occupy Democrats meme showed up once again on Facebook:Under a photograph of Melania Trump and President Trump, text stated:Today, Melania Trump announced her new agenda, focused on “children’s health and well-being.”Also today, Donald Trump asked Congress... |
18231 | Ron Hood Says abortion increases the risk of breast cancer. | State Rep. Ron Hood links abortion and breast cancer in legislation | false | Abortion, Ohio, Ron Hood, | "A group of Ohio House Republicans has introduced legislation aimed at reducing abortions through an extensive list of restrictions and requirements. Rep. Ron Hood, R-Ashville, the sponsor of the legislation, House Bill 200, said he drafted it based on talks with the National Pro-Life Alliance. He said it was intended ... |
1900 | Insight: FDA warned PIP on breast implant safety in 2000. | As early as 2000, U.S. health authorities raised concerns about the French breast implant maker at the heart of a scandal affecting hundreds of thousands of women worldwide. That was almost 10 years before the company came under scrutiny from European regulators. | true | Health News | The locked entrance of French company Poly Implant Prothese (PIP) building is seen in La Seyne-sur-Mer near Toulon December 27, 2011. France's health minister tried to calm women's fears over potentially dangerous breast implants on Tuesday, saying there was no medical need to remove them immediately. The implants at t... |
9214 | Fenofibrate may reduce heart disease risk in some patients with type 2 diabetes | The research questions are important. The scope of the study is large. The funders are serious. And the journal is one of the best read in the field. So why does this news release give reporters — and the rest of the world — so little in the way of details about how and whether this study is important? No quantificatio... | false | fenofibrate,heart disease,NIH/National Heart Lung and Blood Institute,Type 2 diabetes | The drug being studied, fenofibrate, goes by the brand name Tricor. Its costs are well known — about $100 for 90 pills — and could easily have been dropped into the release, making it clear how much it would cost for a typical person to replicate the regimen necessary to see any of the benefits seen in the study. To ac... |
5018 | UK’s anxiety takes center stage at Hay ideas festival. | At Britain’s leading literary gathering, the word of the year was anxiety. | true | Brexit, Anxiety, Mental health, Health, General News, Entertainment, Carnivals, International News, Wales, Europe, Donald Trump | Fifty shades of worry —about climate change, mental health and of course Brexit — dominated the Hay Festival this year. The event is an annual carnival of ideas held amid sheep-studded green hills in Hay-on-Wye, a tiny Welsh town with about 2,000 residents and close to 20 bookshops. With Britain’s departure from the Eu... |
495 | Environmental group seeks California ban on 'super-toxic' rat poisons. | An environmental group launched legal action on Thursday seeking to ban commercial use of “super-toxic” rat poisons in California, citing data showing the products pose a grave threat to a dozen endangered species and other wildlife. | true | Environment | The Center for Biological Diversity notified state pesticide regulators of its intent to file suit for what the group calls a failure to adequately safeguard the San Joaquin kit fox and 11 other animals protected under the U.S. Endangered Species Act. Harm to wildlife from highly toxic “rodenticides” is most pronounced... |
27380 | Kehinde Wiley, the artist who painted former President Barack Obama's official portrait, also produced a pair of paintings depicting black women decapitating white people. | We reached out to Mr. Wiley for comment, but did not receive a reply. | true | Racial Rumors, art, barack obama, kehinde wiley | The unveiling of former President Barack Obama’s official portrait on 12 February 2018 also introduced many Americans to artist Kehinde Wiley for the first time as well, as opening the door to late-breaking controversy over some of Wiley’s earlier work. Wiley, who has described his own visual style as “bombastic, syrup... |
7202 | Rising liberal Democrat star on West Coast fundraising swing. | She visited Los Angeles’ notorious Skid Row neighborhood, where the homeless crowd the streets. She met with liberal activists eager to see universal health care and expanded rent-control laws. And she was cheered by hundreds of supporters at a downtown fundraiser, where she warned of those who scheme to turn liberal-m... | true | Los Angeles, New York City, New York, Universal health care, North America, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, California | Virtually unknown just months ago, New York congressional candidate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez arrived in Los Angeles as a rising political star, about a month after her improbable upset of 10-term U.S. Rep. Joe Crowley in a New York City Democratic primary. On Thursday, she intentionally avoided politicians and Hollywoo... |
34254 | Donald Trump and hundreds of his workers helped search the rubble for survivors after the September 11 terrorist attacks in Lower Manhattan. | Hey, I watched when the World Trade Center came tumbling down. And I watched in Jersey City, New Jersey, where thousands and thousands of people were cheering as that building was coming down. Thousands of people were cheering. | unproven | Politics, 9/11, donald trump | On 11 September 2018, our readers asked for verification of a meme circulating on social media that reported Donald Trump had helped with search-and-rescue efforts in the rubble of the Twin Towers after the 9/11 terrorist attacks 17 years prior: “2 days after the September 11th attacks Donald Trump was at ground zero w... |
29972 | Journalist Bre Payton's untimely death was connected to her reporting on the Mueller probe. | Mueller’s office asked the FBI to investigate after Burkman and Twitter personality Jacob Wohl in October 2018 undertook a smear campaign to discredit Mueller by linking him to accusations of sexual assault. | false | Politics | On 2 January 2019, Washington, D.C., lobbyist Jack Burkman tweeted that something was “strange” about the passing of Bre Payton, a young journalist for the website The Federalist who fell ill and died suddenly in late December 2018: The sudden death of my friend 26 year old Bre Payton is beyond strange. She dies just a... |
17387 | "John Cornyn ""voted twice in 2013 to back Obama’s amnesty plan." | "Stockman said Cornyn voted twice in 2013 for Obama’s amnesty plan. That’s inaccurate to a ridiculous degree. For starters, Obama never offered an amnesty plan, though he endorsed the Senate-approved legislation, which envisioned ways that unauthorized immigrants could attain citizenship. This was also the plan that Co... | false | Immigration, Voting Record, Texas, Steve Stockman, | "A Republican primary challenger to John Cornyn said in an email blast Jan. 31, 2014, that the senior senator for Texas is teaming with Barack Obama, the Democratic president, to ""ram amnesty down your throat."" U.S. Rep. Steve Stockman of Friendswood went on to say that no GOP leader is working harder for amnesty tha... |
16252 | "Rick Scott Says Charlie Crist wants felons who ""commit a heinous crime"" such as ""intentional permanent disfigurement of a child, you walk out of jail, you immediately get to vote." | "Scott said that Crist wants felons who commit ""a heinous crime"" such as ""intentional permanent disfigurement of a child"" to walk out of jail and immediately get the right to vote. The Cabinet under Crist made it easier for felons to get their rights restored, but they didn’t regain those rights immediately after l... | false | Elections, Crime, Florida, Rick Scott, | "As part of his appeal to black voters, Charlie Crist has defended his record on making it easier for nonviolent felons to regain the right to vote. Crist and Gov. Rick Scott argued about restoration of civil rights during the Oct. 21 debate on CNN. ""When I was governor, I brought restoration of rights back for nonvio... |
7893 | Italy bans internal travel as a further 651 die from coronavirus. | Italy banned travel within the country on Sunday in yet another attempt to slow the spread of the coronavirus, as data showed a further 651 people had died from the disease, lifting the number of fatalities to 5,476. | true | Health News | A month after the first death from the highly infectious virus was registered in Italy, the government also issued an order freezing all business activity deemed non-essential in an effort to keep ever more people at home and off the streets. Amongst the sectors targeted were the car, clothing and furniture industries.... |
3170 | Thai reporter gets jail in libel case filed by poultry farm. | A court in Thailand on Tuesday sentenced a reporter to two years in prison for criminal libel for a comment she tweeted about a labor abuse grievance at a poultry farm. | true | Bangkok, Journalists, General News, Environment, Asia Pacific, Thailand, Lawsuits | The case against Suchanee Cloitre, then working for Voice TV, is one of 20 lawsuits launched by Thammakaset Co. against 25 workers, activists and journalists. Critics such as Human Rights Watch say these types of libel cases are meant to deter lawsuits filed in the public interest, such as by labor activists and enviro... |
34751 | Packaged vegetables from Mann Packing are being recalled due to concerns about listeria. | This item is another example of a “zombie recall”: a consumer product alert that has continued to be misleadingly published and circulated online long after it ceased to be of timely relevance. | mixture | Food, vegetables, zombie recalls | Back in October of 2017, Mann Packing of Salinas, California, announced a recall of some of their packaged vegetable products due to concerns over possible listeria-related contamination: A California company has voluntarily recalled packaged vegetables distributed throughout the U.S. and Canada because of possible bac... |
4205 | 2 Dillinger relatives doubt body in grave is the gangster. | Two relatives of notorious 1930s gangster John Dillinger who plan to have his remains exhumed as part of a television documentary say they have “evidence” the body buried in an Indianapolis cemetery may not be him and that FBI agents possibly killed someone else in 1934. | true | John Dillinger, Indianapolis, Chicago, General News, Entertainment, Forensics, AP Top News, Science, Indiana, TV, U.S. News | The FBI immediately disputed that idea, calling it a “myth” that its agents didn’t fatally shoot Dillinger outside a Chicago theater more than 85 years ago. The agency said in a statement that “a wealth of information supports Dillinger’s demise” including fingerprint matches. But in affidavits released by the Indiana ... |
41308 | Aluminium is in vaccines and is linked to Alzheimer’s, dementia, seizures, autoimmune diseases, SIDs and cancer. Aluminium can accumulate in the brain and cause more damage with each dose. | There is no evidence that aluminium build up in the brain causes the disease. Studies show that the amount of aluminium we can get from vaccines (and food) is not enough to be unsafe. | unproven | online | Beta-Propiolactone is in vaccines and is known to cause cancer, suspected gastrointestinal, liver, nerve and respiratory, skin and sense organ poison. It may be present in trace amounts of some vaccines. It is potentially carcinogenic, but only in much larger amounts than would be in a vaccine. The antibiotics gentamic... |
26256 | "Iowa Democratic Party Says Joni Ernst ""claims she ‘pushed for’ new funding for hospitals and COVID-19 testing after opposing It for weeks.”" | Democrats and Republicans were at loggerheads in April over whether to sandwich more funding for hospitals and testing with dollars for the Paycheck Protection Program as money ran out for the federal small business loan program. Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa pivoted in messaging, initially criticizing efforts to include any... | mixture | Federal Budget, Health Care, Public Health, Iowa, Coronavirus, Iowa Democratic Party, | "The Iowa Democratic Party claims in its 2020 campaign against U.S. Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, that Ernst reversed her support for a coronavirus relief plan 3.5, which offered nearly half a trillion dollars for small businesses, hospitals and testing. The Iowa Democratic Party claimed in the headline of an April 21 state... |
12309 | "Despite decades of marijuana being used for smoking in the United States, there have been no reported medical cases of lung cancer"" attributed to marijuana." | "Morgan said, ""Despite decades of marijuana being used for smoking in the United States, there have been no reported medical cases of lung cancer"" attributed to marijuana. The most comprehensive analysis about the health effects related to cannabis comes from a 2017 report by the National Academies of Sciences. The r... | mixture | Florida, Marijuana, John Morgan, | "John Morgan, the lawyer who spearheaded Florida’s 2016 constitutional amendment to allow medical marijuana use, says that the Legislature has ignored the will of the voters by banning smoking it. In November, about 71 percent of Florida voters approved the medical marijuana amendment. To implement the new law, the Leg... |
25943 | Monica Cline Says research shows that children feel pressure “to become sexually active because of comprehensive sex education.” | "Cline said research shows that children feel pressure ""to become sexually active because of comprehensive sex education."" We found little to no research exploring whether sex education curriculum contributes to adolescents feeling pressure to have sex. But there is research examining the relationship between sex edu... | false | Education, Sexuality, Texas, Monica Cline, | "The Texas State Board of Education heard testimony from hundreds of people during a 15-hour virtual public hearing last month about changes to state standards for health education, including instruction on reproductive and sexual health. Public schools in the state are not required to teach sex education, and those th... |
36704 | Pepsi products have been contaminated by a disgruntled worker who added blood containing human immunodeficiency virus to the company's drinks. | AIDS Warning: Worker Adds HIV-Positive Blood to Pepsi? | false | Disinformation, Fact Checks, Viral Content | False warnings about various foods or drinks being contaminated with the blood of a worker who has AIDS or HIV have been circulating for years, but there’s never been any truth to them.Variations of these rumors have circulated all over the world, and they all follow the same general format: an HIV-positive worker adde... |
11125 | Heart bypass surgery brings long-term benefits | This news release describes extended outcomes of a large, randomized controlled trial comparing the effects of coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) surgery plus medical treatment with those of medical treatment alone on patients with dysfunction or failure of their heart’s pumping function. The study showed significa... | true | cardiovascular disease,Government agency news release | There is no discussion of cost in this release. Perhaps the cost of medical treatment is moot as both groups received that, but it’s useful context for the reader. CABG is major surgery and consequently expensive. Some estimates of cost for uninsured patients range from $70,000 to $200,000. Even with medical insurance ... |
10914 | Chilling heart attack patients | "This is a story about ""The idea … that cooling a comatose patient after a heart attack prevents brain damage."" A simple claim of 14% improved survival was made, without clarification about the types of patients who were seen to benefit from the treatment nor any reference for understanding the magnitude that this be... | mixture | "Although one of the physicians commenting on the treatment contrasted this treatment with the situation in medicine where there are expensive treatments that may make little difference – and explained this procedure as being just ""ice"" – the video showed some specialized equipment for controlled lowering of body te... | |
14357 | I have now put out all of my emails. | "Clinton said, ""I have now put out all of my emails."" In reality, only about half of the emails sent or received by Clinton on her private email server have been released. Clinton’s comments focus on emails that she and her staff deemed work-related. Clinton says the half that aren’t available are personal and privat... | mixture | National, Corrections and Updates, Transparency, Hillary Clinton, | "Controversy over Hillary Clinton's practice of using a private email server while she was secretary of state is continuing to have repercussions in her presidential campaign. The latest is a Milwaukee Journal Sentinel editorial criticizing the Democrat's rationale, saying that ""the only believable reason for the priv... |
3157 | EPA lowers Denver area’s air quality rating to ‘serious’. | The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has downgraded the air quality rating of Colorado’s biggest population center. | true | Colorado, General News, Jared Polis, Denver, Environment, Air quality, Pollution | The EPA finalized the move Monday, lowering the ozone status of Denver and eight other northern Colorado counties from “moderate” to “serious.” That will force the state to work harder to reduce harmful pollution but also bring tougher and costly regulations for businesses. Gov. Jared Polis took the unusual step of inv... |
41093 | US patent 10130701 is for coronavirus. | This number is not a patent for the new Wuhan virus, Covid-19. It’s a patent for a weakened version of a virus in the same family as Covid-19, a family which includes the common cold and SARS. | mixture | online | US-Patent 8835624 is for the H1N1 virus. The patent with this number was for a strand of DNA that binds to the H1N1 virus, not the virus itself. US patent number 20120251502 is for Ebola. This application number was for a strain of the Ebola virus but the application has now been abandoned. The virus was not created by... |
3456 | When light is lethal: Moroccans struggle with skin disorder. | Determined for her 7-year-old son to attend school despite a life-threatening sensitivity to sunlight, Nadia El Rami stuck a deal with the school’s director: Mustapha would be allowed in the classroom, but only if he studies inside a cardboard box. | true | Africa, Skin disorders, Casablanca, Health, Middle East, North Africa, Morocco, AP Top News, General News, International News | Mustapha Redouane happily accepted the arrangement. He knew his mother’s idea would silence the school’s worries about his condition, a rare genetic disorder called xeroderma pigmentosum, or XP, which can make sun rays and other sources of ultraviolet light extremely damaging to the skin and eyes. The disorder is more ... |
3143 | Police investigating death of disabled man burned from bath. | Boise police are investigating the death of a disabled man who died of severe burns after he was put in a bathtub of hot water. | true | Health, General News, Boise, Crime, Burns, Injuries, Idaho | Benjamin Reed’s longtime friend and housemate Joe Ribich told the Idaho Statesman that Reed had a neurological disease and was under the care of a home care aide when the burns occurred. The 38-year-old was in the hospital for 11 days — much of that time at a burn unit in Salt Lake City — before he died of his injuries... |
40779 | EU nationals have fallen as a percentage of those joining the NHS. | EU nationals made up 8% of new staff (whose nationality was known) joining the NHS in England in the year to June 2018. That compares to 11% in the year to June 2016. It’s possible that the number in June 2016 was unusually high. | true | health | The number of EU nurses coming to the UK has fallen by 90% since the Brexit vote. The number of nurses and midwives from the EEA joining the Nursing and Midwifery Council’s register fell by 91% from 2015/16 to 2017/18. The number of EU nationals leaving the NHS jumped by 14% in 2017. EU nationals have fallen as a perce... |
10816 | Stem cell therapies for hearts inching closer to wide use | The story does a solid job of explaining that the current research, a Phase I study, can establish only that the procedure is safe, not that it is effective. The reader learns about the differences among the three phases of studies the FDA requires. The reader learns about how stem cells might benefit damaged heart mus... | true | "The story reports that harvesting enough stem cells for infusion is difficult and costly, though it fails to cite specific costs. For research in Phase I, any comment on cost might be purely speculative. Since the study is designed to prove safety, there are no credible benefits data to report. The report does allow s... | |
2126 | Stronger evidence pollution damages heart: report. | The evidence is stronger than ever that pollution from industry, traffic and power generation causes strokes and heart attacks, and people should avoid breathing in smog, the American Heart Association said on Monday. | true | Environment | Fine particulate matter from burning fossil fuels such as gasoline, coal and oil is the clearest offender, the group said. “Particulate matter appears to directly increase risk by triggering events in susceptible individuals within hours to days of an increased level of exposure, even among those who otherwise may have... |
17542 | "The federal health care law tells ""the American people precisely what type of coverage they have to have." | "Romney said the administration is telling ""the American people precisely what type of coverage they have to have."" We were unable to reach Romney. The health care law does mandate some types of coverage, and for some people, requires 10 essential health benefits. But it’s not nearly as sweeping as Romney makes it so... | mixture | Health Care, PunditFact, Mitt Romney, | "Mitt Romney may no longer be a presidential candidate, but he remains a vocal critic of President Barack Obama, particularly Obama’s health care law. During an appearance Jan. 5 on Fox News Sunday, the Republican and former Massachusetts governor weighed in on the Affordable Care Act as it enters an important year of ... |
4457 | What my DNA told me: Avoid fast food, eat vegetables. | Avoid fast food, eat vegetables and exercise. It sounds like generic health advice, but they’re tips supposedly tailored to my DNA profile. | true | AP Top News, Genetics, Technology, Health, Science, Exercise | The suggestions come from 23andme, one of the companies offering to point you toward the optimal eating and exercise habits for your genetics. As with most dieting schemes, the idea is appealing because it implies there’s an elusive reason why you can’t get in shape — in this case, your genes. But Isaac Kohane, a biome... |
225 | Bayer mediator dismisses report of $8 billion Roundup settlement. | Bayer AG has not offered to pay billions of dollars to settle claims in the United States related to the Roundup herbicide, mediator Ken Feinberg said, dismissing a report to that effect which drove its shares as much as 11% higher. | true | Health News | “Bayer has not proposed paying $8 billion to settle all the U.S. Roundup cancer claims. Such a statement is pure fiction,” Feinberg said in an email on Friday. “Compensation has not even been discussed in the global mediation discussions.” Bayer shares, which had shed some of their gains before Feinberg’s statement, r... |
15724 | We have towns in West Texas that are out of water, that are having to truck in water. | "Miller said: ""We have towns in West Texas that are out of water."" In recent years, towns around Texas occasionally ran dry until new wells or water plants met needs. But Miller named no towns out of water of late nor did we identify any." | false | Water, Texas, Sid Miller, | "At a March 2015 symposium on water in Texas, the state’s agriculture commissioner was asked about his agency’s actions in that realm. Sid Miller, a former legislator who took office in January 2015, replied that just that week he’d signed off on water wells being drilled in two West Texas communities with less than 18... |
2140 | Sex virus blamed for rise in head and neck cancers. | The number of head and neck cancers linked to a virus spread by oral sex is rising rapidly and suggests boys as well as girls should be offered protection through vaccination, doctors said Friday. | true | Health News | An electron micrograph of a negatively stained human papilloma virus. REUTERS/National Cancer Institute/Handout Despite an overall slight decline in head and neck cancers in recent years, cases of a particular form called oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC) have increased sharply, particularly in the developed... |
36708 | Former senator John McCain started a fire as a young pilot aboard an aircraft carrier that killed 134 sailors because he was showing off. | Did John McCain Start the USS Forrestal Fire? | false | Disinformation, Fact Checks, Military, Politics, Viral Content | John McCain wasn’t to blame for a deadly 1967 fire aboard the USS Forrestal aircraft carrier — but that smear has been circulating at least since McCain ran for president in 2008.The smear resurfaced on the tragedy’s 50th anniversary in 2017, and again after McCain’s August 2018 death from from brain cancer.It’s not cl... |
14669 | Between 1990 and 2013, the maternal mortality rate for women in the U.S. has increased by 136%. | Sheila Jackson Lee said the maternal mortality rate in the United States increased 136 percent between 1990 and 2013. A 2014 report compiled by the World Health Organization, UNICEF and The World Bank presented just that figure. However, experts agree it is inaccurate and based on a modeling method WHO no longer uses. ... | false | Women, Texas, Sheila Jackson Lee, | "Shortly before the December holidays, Sheila Jackson Lee, a 10-term U.S. House member, inserted remarks into the Congressional Record in regard to women’s legal and human rights. The Houston Democrat, sharing initial findings from the U.S. visit of a United Nations Working Group that focuses on discrimination against ... |
7437 | Rare Wyoming Legislature special session to take on COVID-19. | The Wyoming Legislature will convene its first special session in 16 years Friday to help businesses and workers, allocate federal funding and take other action in response to the coronavirus. | true | Legislature, Bills, Health, General News, Wyoming, Mark Gordon, Cheyenne, Virus Outbreak, Public health | Besides holding a rare special session, the full Legislature will meet in a way unlike ever before. A small number of lawmakers will meet in the state Capitol in Cheyenne and the rest will take part by video conference. Lawmakers have drafted five bills, four of which have mirror versions so the House and Senate can co... |
28290 | "The U.S. Congress passed the 22nd Amendment in order to ""make sure President Franklin D. Roosevelt did not get re-elected." | What's true: The campaign to introduce a two-term limit on the U.S. presidency intensified after FDR's third and fourth elections in 1940 and 1944, giving rise to what ultimately became the 22nd Amendment in 1947. Those historical facts support what a spokesperson for Rep. Ocasio-Cortez said was the intended meaning of... | mixture | Politics | Some critics of Democratic U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez responded with a measure of ridicule and criticism in the Spring of 2019, after remarks she made about the introduction of the 22nd Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which imposed a two-term limit on the U.S. presidency. The Washington Examiner, for exampl... |
8316 | Exclusive: India agrees to sell hydroxychloroquine to Malaysia to help fight COVID-19. | India has agreed to sell hydroxychloroquine tablets to Malaysia for use in the treatment of COVID-19 patients, a Malaysian minister told Reuters on Wednesday, with New Delhi partially lifting its bar on exports of the anti-malarial drug. | true | Health News | India is the world’s largest producer of hydroxychloroquine, sales of which have soared across the world including in the United States, especially after President Donald Trump touted it as a potential weapon against COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus. New Delhi had last month put a hold on exports o... |
3001 | Suspect in cleaver killing ordered to mental health facility. | A man charged with killing his wife with a meat cleaver in 2017 has been placed in the custody of the Vermont Department of Mental Health. | true | Health, General News, Burlington, Mental health, Vermont | Aita Gurung was charged with murder in his wife’s death, but the charges were dropped by the county prosecutor who said evidence showed he was legally insane at the time. The attorney general refiled the charges in September after Republican Gov. Phil Scott asked him to review the case. Last month, Gurung was found inc... |
7922 | Turkey confirms first coronavirus case, wins WHO praise for vigilance. | Turkey confirmed its first case of the coronavirus on Wednesday, becoming the last major economy to report an outbreak after taking what the World Health Organization (WHO) described as “vigilant, cautious” measures to delay the disease. | true | Health News | Health Minister Fahrettin Koca confirmed early on Wednesday that a Turkish man had been isolated after being diagnosed with the virus following high fever and a cough. “This is the first case confirmed in our country. The findings show the diagnosis of coronavirus was made early and if the virus has spread it is limite... |
21795 | On repeal of Wisconsin's smoking ban | On repeal of Wisconsin's smoking ban, Walker goes from pro to con | false | Public Health, Wisconsin, Scott Walker, | "It’s been a year since you could light up a smoke in Wisconsin bars and restaurants. The state’s smoking ban, approved by the Legislature and Democratic Gov. Jim Doyle in 2009, took effect in July 2010 and continues to stir debates. Some tavern and restaurant owners say it’s hurt their business and driven away long-ti... |
34789 | Unsuspecting phone customers are gulled into placing calls to area codes in the Caribbean that result in hefty charges. | Chinese health authorities said they are investigating 27 cases of viral pneumonia in the central city of Wuhan, after rumors on social media suggested the outbreak could be linked to Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS). | mixture | Fraud & Scams, Telephone Scams | Of the people infected, seven were in critical condition and 18 were in stable condition, the Wuhan Municipal Health Commission said on Tuesday on its Weibo social media account. The condition of two other patients had improved to the point where they would be discharged soon, it said. “The cause of the disease is not ... |
11564 | Higher Folic Acid Levels in Teens Tied to Academic Success | The study reported on found an association between folic acid intake levels and a measure of school performance in a group of Swedish students. This story did not clarify for readers how the group studied differed in an important way from youth in the US, who are raised consuming a food supply supplemented with folic a... | mixture | HealthDay | Not applicable. No discussion of costs but we don’t think that’s a big issue in this case. The story did not quantify the improvement in scores as was done in the Reuters story. Not applicable. The story could have mentioned the potential for excessive folic acid intake to interfere with vitamin B12 uptake which, thoug... |
24612 | "President Barack Obama suggested on national TV that the Democratic health care bill ""will have government decide"" that a healthy, 100-year-old woman in need of a pacemaker ""should take a pain pill"" instead." | Lungren says Obama would have government require a centenarian to get a pill, not a pacemaker | false | National, Health Care, Dan Lungren, | "Rep. Dan Lungren, a Republican from California, says President Barack Obama's health care plan is so mixed up that the government would tell 100-year-old ladies who need pacemakers to take pain pills instead. During a speech on the House floor on July 28, 2009, Lungren cited comments that Obama made in a TV special to... |
9574 | Test Of Experimental Alzheimer's Drug Finds Progress Against Brain Plaques | This NPR story discusses early studies on an experimental amyloid-reducing drug that researchers hope may prevent Alzheimer’s disease. It does a good job of balancing the promise of the drug with realistic assessments about the early stage of the research and the fact that there are potential downsides to this treatmen... | true | beta amyloid | The story doesn’t mention costs. However, the piece is clear that this is early-stage research that might not pan out, so we think it’s acceptable that there’s no cost discussion. The story suggests that treatment with aducanumab results in “striking,” “dramatic” and “remarkable” reductions in amyloid plaques in the br... |
18213 | "The Senate immigration bill ""has immediate legalization ... and the border security is sometime in the future, and just like in 1986, it's designed never to come into being." | "Cruz said the Senate immigration bill offers immediate legalization of unauthorized immigrants and that it indefinitely defers action on border security. Cruz said this bill was just like the major reform bill in 1986. On legalization, the process would not be immediate, but as the CBO uses the term, it would come bef... | false | Immigration, National, Corrections and Updates, Ted Cruz, | "A 1986 immigration law signed by President Ronald Reagan casts a long shadow over the current immigration reform debate. Opponents of today’s immigration bill say that law gave away the farm -- it granted amnesty and failed to button down the border -- and they don’t want to see history repeat itself. This was the mai... |
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