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29396 | In December 2016, President Obama signed a bill criminalizing alternative media. | What's true: On 23 December 2016, President Obama signed a Defense Department appropriations bill with a provision establishing an interagency office to identify and combat foreign propaganda. What's false: The provision is aimed at countering foreign sources of disinformation and does not apply to American independent... | false | Politics Conspiracy Theories, news punch, your news wire | On 25 December 2016, the unreliable political site YourNewsWire.com published an article asserting that President Obama had signed a “Christmas bill … quietly” that effectively labeled alternative media as “propaganda” and criminalized it: President Obama has just quietly signed into law a bill that makes it illegal to... |
37618 | "A real piece of legislation filed in Tennessee sought to officially label CNN and the Washington Post as ""fake news." | Tennessee State Legislature’s Bill to Recognize CNN, Washington Post as ‘Fake News’ | true | Fact Checks, Viral Content | On February 11 2020, tweets and social media posts alluded to “an actual bill” in the state of Tennessee, aimed at labeling CNN and the Washington Post as “fake news”:This is an ACTUAL Bill being debated by the Tennessee State Legislature Today.Yes, this is, in fact, Real.SMDH. pic.twitter.com/BGYIAz31Oj— Allan Creasy ... |
11557 | ‘Boston Legal’ lawyer makes his case for Alzheimer’s drug | "This story is an interesting twist to the usual health news article reviewed on this site. It comes from a regular column, ""The Unreal World,"" in the LA Times that reviews health issues in prime time TV shows. The story provides an overview of a recent episode of a popular TV show – Boston Legal (ABC, Dec 1) and the... | true | The cost of the drug is not particularly relevant in this case. This story points out the potential benefits of Dimebon based upon preliminary research, but didn’t quantify those benefits. These include improved cognition, memory and ability to perform activities of daily living. These potential benefits should have be... | |
2728 | Toxin at heart of drug recall shows holes in medical safety net. | A toxin inadvertently produced in the manufacture of a widely prescribed medicine but not spotted for years raises questions about regulators’ ability to detect risks in a sprawling global drug supply chain increasingly reliant on factories in China. | true | Health News | China’s Zhejiang Huahai Pharmaceutical (600521.SS), which produces bulk ingredients for drugmakers, told its customers in late June it had found NDMA in its valsartan, an off-patent blood pressure drug originally developed by Novartis (NOVN.S). The discovery means that some of the 10 billion pills containing valsartan ... |
9018 | Pediatric cancer drug shows 93 percent response rate | This news release describes a phase 1 safety trial of a new cancer therapy undergoing testing for certain pediatric cancers. Rather than focusing on the safety and tolerability of the study — which is the purpose of a phase 1 trial — the news release takes a great leap by claiming success in treating patients, and in p... | false | larotrectinib,pediatric cancer,UT Southwestern Medical Center | The release doesn’t offer any cost projections. Although larotrectinib is not yet FDA approved and therefore not available for sale in the US, its ultimate approval seems likely. In fact, the company that makes larotrectinib, Loxo Oncology, has pursued a partnership agreement with Bayer Pharmaceuticals to market the ne... |
29570 | The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is banning the conversion of road cars to racecars. | What's true: In July 2015, the EPA proposed clarifications to existing laws governing emissions with respect to road-to-racecar modifications. What's false: The EPA is banning road-to-race car conversions. | false | Politics Legal | On 8 February 2016, the Specialty Equipment Market Association (SEMA, a vehicle modification trade association) issued a press release regarding proposed EPA regulations regarding the conversion of vehicles from on-road use to racing purposes: The regulation would impact all vehicle types, including the sports cars, se... |
42213 | “NASA ADMITS To Spraying Americans With Lithium & Other Chemicals” | Q: Is NASA “spraying Americans with lithium and other chemicals”?A: No. The space agency uses such materials, which are also used in fireworks, in the upper atmosphere – way above where planes fly. Experts say it’s “extremely unlikely” even “a minute amount” would reach Earth’s surface. | false | chemtrails, environment, health, NASA, | Q: Is NASA “spraying Americans with lithium and other chemicals”? A: No. The space agency uses such materials, which are also used in fireworks, in the upper atmosphere – way above where planes fly. Experts say it’s “extremely unlikely” even “a minute amount” would reach Earth’s surface. A persisting conspiracy theory ... |
24697 | "A public option for health care would end private insurance ""because the private insurance people will not be able to compete with a government option." | Some private health insurance can survive public option | false | National, Health Care, Mitch McConnell, | "With high-profile support from President Barack Obama, Congress is preparing a major overhaul of the nation's health care system. The details have yet to be revealed, but that hasn't stopped critics in Congress from going on the attack. Obama and the Democratic leadership have proposed broad outlines for the overhaul.... |
9790 | Study: Brain suffers when fish oil falls short | It was oppressively hot, above 40 Celsius (104 Fahrenheit), and the wind was picking up. Bushfires were devastating nearby towns and now threatened Yanderra, a small village with just over 600 people located south of Sydney. | false | Omega-3 | Diane and Ron Baxter bought a block of land here 43 years ago. They’d since built a house and a life, raising two children including a daughter now living next door with her family. As smoke filled the sky on Saturday and fire embers fell nearby, the Baxters, aged in their 70s, chose to remain and defend their property... |
15810 | "Under legislation that has cleared the Georgia House, some children who are ""legal refugees"" could obtain state scholarships to attend private schools." | True: Legislation would open scholarship program to legal refugees | true | Georgia, Autism, Children, Disability, Education, Families, Immigration, State Budget, The Associated Press, | "Georgia opened the door to private school vouchers in 2007, with a law aimed at parents who felt their disabled children weren’t being adequately served in public school. In the 2013-2014 school year, the families of about 3,400 disabled students received taxpayer-funded vouchers to help pay their children’s tuition t... |
11292 | Fish Oil Supplements Linked to Lower Risk of Breast Cancer: Study | You can read the full review below. But we don’t want to overlook what a big thing it is to see improvement in the two areas already noted. Keep it up, HealthDay. Breast cancer risk is not a one-size-fits-all story. It’s age-dependent. And this story should have pushed the researchers for age-specific breakdowns. | true | "Not applicable. No discussion of costs, but we think it’s common knowledge that these supplements are inexpensive. We have problems with the way this was handled. The subhead said, ""32 percent reduced odds seen in postmenopausal women."" But readers need to know 32% of what? It also explained that the study surveyed ... | |
34302 | Corey Feldman was stabbed by assailants angered by his claims that he was victim of pedophilia. | An investigation into Corey Feldman’s stabbing claims is ongoing, and police have suggested “road rage” (rather than pedophilia) was a possible factor in the incident. | unproven | Crime, corey feldman, neon nettle | On 28 March 2018, actor Corey Feldman reported via Twitter that he had been stabbed while he was driving in Los Angeles, blaming a “wolfpack” for the purported attack: IM IN THE HOSPITAL! I WAS ATTACKED 2NITE! A MAN OPENED MY CAR DOOR & STABBED ME W SOMETHING! PLEASE SAY PRAYERS 4 US! 🙏🏼🙏🏼 THANK GOD IT WAS ONLY MYS... |
11533 | FDA OKs Implantable Telescope to Aid Vision | "This story called the technology a ""breakthrough."" In contrast, the AP story quoted the same researcher emphasizing ""We’re not giving people back 20-year-old eyes."" Tone and framing are important in health care stories. This one relied a bit too much on the enthusiasm that came from a company news release. Since t... | mixture | "There was no discussion of cost as there was in the competing AP story. The story adequately quantified the benefits seen in the study that led to FDA approval. The story did quantify the harms: ""the IMT is large enough to pose a threat to the cornea of the eye, leading to extensive loss of cells essential for maint... | |
24219 | "The health care bill ""dumps 15 to 18 million low-income Americans into a Medicaid program that none of us want to be a part of because 50 percent of doctors won't see new patients." | Health care reform bill will expand Medicaid, increasing demands on doctors | mixture | National, Health Care, Poverty, Lamar Alexander, | "Little known fact: The health care bill will open up Medicaid to millions of Americans.The expansion has been overshadowed by debate over the public option, taxes on ""Cadillac"" health care plans, and a litany of other controversial items in the overhaul. But during the Feb. 25, 2010, health care summit between Presi... |
1016 | Cholera surge stalks Yemen's hungry and displaced. | In the last two weeks Dr Asmahan Ahmed has seen a surge in suspected cholera cases arriving at her health center in Abs, a small, Houthi-held town in northwest Yemen. | true | Health News | “Every day there are 30-50 cases, no fewer. Suddenly it became like this,” she said in the 15-bed diarrhea treatment center. Yemen is suffering its third major cholera outbreak since 2015 when a Saudi-led military coalition intervened to try to restore Yemen’s internationally recognized government after it was ousted f... |
33319 | The New York Assembly passed a law making it expressly legal to shoot babies in the heart with poison. | The New York Assembly did not pass a law making it expressly legal to abort third-trimester fetuses by shooting them in the heart with poison. | false | Politics, abortion, lifenews | On 25 March 2015, the web site LifeNews published an article headlined “New York Assembly Passes Bill Allowing Shooting Babies Through the Heart with Poison to Kill Them.” According to that article, lawmakers in New York State had just passed a bill “that would promote late-term abortions in the Empire State.” The art... |
7924 | Stocks savaged, Italy on lockdown, Trump seeks to reassure as coronavirus spreads. | All of Italy under lockdown, reeling financial markets and rioting prisoners made clear on Monday how the global coronavirus epidemic was extending its reach into all aspects of social and economic life. | true | Health News | Major European stock markets dived more than 7%, Japanese indexes fell over 5% and U.S. markets sank over 7% after Saudi Arabia launched an oil price war with Russia that sent investors already spooked by the coronavirus epidemic running for the exits. In Italy, scene of Europe’s worst outbreak with infections and deat... |
6197 | Florida’s new Trump-backed governor seeks to broaden appeal. | Florida voters who expected new Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis to be politically divisive because of his strong ties to President Donald Trump may be surprised by the quick actions he’s taken in his first two weeks in office. | true | Legislature, Medical marijuana, Rising sea levels, Florida, Ron DeSantis, Marijuana, Environment, Donald Trump | DeSantis announced a bold plan to address environmental issues, including an acknowledgement that the state needs to address rising sea levels; posthumously pardoned four black men accused of raping a white teenager nearly 70 years ago; named a Democrat to a top position in his administration; and demanded that the Rep... |
21100 | Gov. Scott Walker received a $7,300 pay raise. | Wisconsin Democratic Party says Gov. Scott Walker received a $7,300 pay raise | false | Wisconsin, Democratic Party of Wisconsin, | "The reaction to plans by Gov. Scott Walker to freeze the pay of state workers continues to roll in. And Walker’s own pay continues to be a focal point of his opponents. On Nov. 9, 2011, the Democratic Party of Wisconsin issued a news release that attempted to fan the fire. The group, which is launching a recall agains... |
8692 | Donated meals make 'huge difference', say UK coronavirus medics. | Doctors and nurses dealing with the influx of coronavirus patients in a south London hospital said on Tuesday that the donated meals delivered to them daily made a big difference. | true | Health News | A group of volunteers led by husband and wife Niall Barrett and Janneke Diemel set up a catering service last month that provides free meals to hard-pressed medical staff at St George’s Hospital. “Normally we all provide our own food and now we don’t have to think about it, we just come to work and eat,” said critical ... |
4004 | New measles case in child who visited Portland airport. | Officials say an unvaccinated child in southwestern Washington has contracted the measles after travelling internationally. | true | Health, Measles, General News, Vancouver, Washington | Clark County Public Health officials said Wednesday that the child passed through the Portland International Airport and PeaceHealth Southwest Medical Center in Vancouver Nov. 14 while contagious. The child also visited Randall Children’s Hospital at Legacy Emanuel in Portland from Nov. 16 to Nov. 17. The agency warned... |
37512 | Florida residents kept congregating at local beaches in spite of the COVID-19 pandemic. | Were Florida Residents Spotted Packing Beaches During the COVID-19 Pandemic? | true | Fact Checks, Viral Content | A photograph of beachgoers ignoring social distancing guidelines concerning the COVID-19 pandemic prompted local officials to close their gathering place to the public.The photo, attributed to Clay Archer of Jacksonville Beach, was shared thousands of times on Twitter after being posted there by Travis Akers, a spokesp... |
7948 | PM Johnson warns Britons: more loved ones are going to die from coronavirus. | Prime Minister Boris Johnson warned on Thursday that many more families would see their loved ones die from coronavirus, as the government’s chief scientific adviser said Britain likely has as many as 10,000 people infected. | true | Health News | Britain and the EU also agreed to cancel face-to-face trade negotiations planned for next week in London due to the outbreak. At a meeting of the government’s emergency committee on Thursday, Johnson moved Britain’s response to the outbreak to the so-called “delay phase”, aimed at putting off the peak until the summer ... |
26852 | Video shows Democratic presidential candidates speechless for 20 seconds when discussing whether any of them started a business. | The video makes it look like Bloomberg left the other presidential candidates speechless for 20 seconds after claiming he was the only one who had started a business. In fact, there was a two-second pause. The video was selectively edited to splice together unrelated moments of expressive faces from his rivals. | false | Debates, New York, Michael Bloomberg, | "Democratic presidential candidates jumped over each other to land rhetorical punches against Mike Bloomberg at the Las Vegas debate, hitting the billionaire former mayor over redlining, stop and frisk, and his past critiques of Barack Obama. Bloomberg selected a different highlight to share on Twitter the next day. Th... |
9480 | Flattening The 'Mummy Tummy' With 1 Exercise, 10 Minutes A Day | A reporter shares her personal experience taking an exercise class aimed at flattening what she calls her “mummy tummy,” the abdominal bulge more formally known as diastasis recti, a separation of abdominal muscles after pregnancy. The story provides a lot of good details and explanations for the science behind the pro... | mixture | weight loss | The story provides the average cost of a 12-week training in the exercise technique as “around $100 to $300.” It also mentions alternatives like online classes and videos that are much less expensive. The story is primarily a combination of anecdotes about a reporter’s personal experiences in a class, and interviews wi... |
27902 | A virus deadly to dogs has been spreading in the canine population of the U.S. | Has a virus deadly to dogs been spreading in the canine population of the U.S.? | true | Critter Country, American Veterinary Medical Association, ASP Article, Centers for Disease Control | In 2004, a virulent form of canine influenza surfaced at greyhound racing parks in Florida. In that outbreak, it infected 24 greyhounds and killed 8 more. The contagion has since been confirmed in seven states, having killed greyhounds at tracks in Florida, Massachusetts, Arizona, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Texas and Io... |
15631 | "Joe Scarborough Says the Clintons ""burst through their own self-pronounced guidelines"" by accepting foreign donations. ""There is a clip of Bill Clinton saying we're not going to take foreign donations." | Scarborough accused Bill Clinton of hypocrisy, saying the former president violated his own self-pronounced guidelines by accepting foreign donations while his wife was secretary of state. As evidence, Scarborough pointed to comments made by Clinton in 2012. But Clinton's comments were more narrowly focused than Scarbo... | false | Ethics, PunditFact, Joe Scarborough, | "A 2012 Q&A session between Bill Clinton and Ashley Judd has surfaced as evidence in the case against the Clinton Foundation and its acceptance of foreign donations while Hillary Clinton served as secretary of state. In the video, Clinton’s words seem hypocritical. Here’s how MSNBC host Joe Scarborough described it on ... |
16998 | "A company hired to do Common Core testing in Florida will ""attract every one of your children to become as homosexual as they possibly can." | "A firm hired to do Common Core testing in Florida will ""attract every one of your children to become as homosexual as they possibly can,"" Van Zant said. The firm hired to do testing, AIR, separately provides information to entities that request it to help them assist LGBT students. Currently, the federal government ... | false | Corrections and Updates, Education, Gays and Lesbians, Florida, Charles Van Zant, | "Heads up moms and dads -- a Florida lawmaker has unearthed one more conspiracy behind Common Core. A company that has been hired by Florida to give students tests will be recruiting every one of those students to become gay. Think Progress, a liberal blog, dug up a video of state Rep. Charles Van Zant, R-Keystone Heig... |
40778 | The number of EU nationals leaving the NHS jumped by 14% in 2017. | That’s correct for staff in England, comparing the number who left in 2016 with the number who left in 2017. | 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... |
4278 | Sweet sizzlin’ beans! Fancy names may boost healthy dining. | Researchers tried a big serving of food psychology and a dollop of trickery to get diners to eat their vegetables. And it worked. | true | Health, Stanford University, Psychology, Science | Veggies given names like “zesty ginger-turmeric sweet potatoes” and “twisted citrus-glazed carrots” were more popular than those prepared exactly the same way but with plainer, more healthful-sounding labels. Diners more often said “no thanks” when the food had labels like “low-fat,” ″reduced-sodium” or “sugar-free.” M... |
3951 | Aid groups halt work in south Yemen after targeted bombings. | A dozen humanitarian organizations in war-torn southern Yemen suspended their operations following a string of targeted attacks, the United Nations said, while the country’s rebel-led health ministry announced on Tuesday that severe outbreaks of swine flu and dengue fever have killed close to 200 people since October. | true | Dengue fever, Health, Middle East, Flu, Bombings, United Nations, Swine flu, General News, Yemen, Sanaa | The suspension of aid work came after unknown assailants fired rocket-propelled grenades at three aid organizations in the southwestern province of Dhale over the weekend, according to the U.N. Humanitarian Office in Yemen, wounding a security guard and damaging several office buildings. The bombings signaled “an alarm... |
24152 | Americans who get their insurance through the workplace, cost savings could be as much as $3,000 less per employee than if we do nothing. | Obama says health reform legislation could reduce costs in employer plans by up to $3,000 | mixture | National, Health Care, Barack Obama, | "As the health care reform legislation heads toward a final vote, President Barack Obama has been out stumping hard for the plan, promising that if it passes, insurance premiums for most people will go down, at least compared to where they would be if the bill doesn't pass. ""Americans who get their insurance through t... |
11091 | Study Shows a Probiotic Supplement May Help Treat Babies With Colic | There was no independent perspective or interview of any kind conducted for this story. And the lack of expert feedback shows in the mediocre evaluation of the evidence, vague discussion of benefits, and failure to provide important context about previous research in this area. Perhaps most troubling, the story did not... | false | "The story did not mention how much treatment with this probiotic costs. A month’s supply costs about $40 according to one Internet retailer–information that easily could have been included in the piece. The story reports the number of minutes per day that children cried in the probiotic and placebo group — a reasonabl... | |
8030 | Toughest weeks ahead in coronavirus fight, warns French PM. | The next two weeks will be the toughest yet in the fight against coronavirus in France, Prime Minister Edouard Philippe warned on Saturday as his government raced to add intensive care beds and source protective gear. | true | Health News | The outbreak initially took hold in eastern France, where hospitals have become overwhelmed, and has been spreading west. Doctors in the greater Paris region have said their intensive care units will be full by the end of the weekend. “We are fighting a battle that will take time,” Philippe said at a news conference. “... |
10096 | Restrictive Diet May Reduce ADHD Symptoms | This story presented a more cautious view than the WebMD story we reviewed on a study suggesting that a restrictive diet may help ease the symptoms of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). It did a nice job avoiding disease mongering, evaluating the quality of the evidence, describing the benefits in both re... | mixture | Diet studies,HealthDay | Neither story mentions specific costs. Both stories say that if parents are to embark on this diet, they will need to have their kids monitored. This story says that parents should have their children monitored by “a primary care doctor and, if possible, a dietician.” That would make this diet extremely expensive and ... |
29801 | Then-Vice President Joe Biden publicly revealed the identity of the special-operations unit responsible for Osama bin Laden’s killing during a 3 May 2011 speech at the Atlantic Council Awards Dinner. | In point of fact, the claim that Biden “publicly revealed the identity of the special-operations unit responsible for bin Laden’s killing” is demonstrably false. He did not identify the unit involved in the attack. He did, however, acknowledge the involvement of Navy SEALs more generally. This fact had been widely repo... | false | Politics | In the early hours of 2 May 2011, a team of 79 American special-operation forces belonging to the Navy’s elite SEAL Team 6 flew two helicopters at low altitude across the Afghanistan-Pakistan border, avoiding Pakistani radar as they landed in a compound inhabited by al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden. Minutes later, the ... |
26065 | "Priorities USA Action Says President Trump said coronavirus testing makes the U.S. look bad, ""so I said to my people, ‘Slow the testing down.’" | As health officials push increased testing as key to managing COVID-19, Trump has increasingly questioned the need for testing. The president has called testing “overrated” and repeatedly said the high number of confirmed cases makes the U.S. look bad. He went a step farther at a rally in Oklahoma, saying the U.S. shou... | true | Public Health, Wisconsin, Coronavirus, Priorities USA Action, | "Months into the coronavirus pandemic, much remains unknown about the virus’ origins, transmission and longevity. But the need for more testing is a point of near unanimous agreement among health officials, scientists and members of both political parties. It’s the pathway to better understanding how far the disease ha... |
9775 | In Defense of Fiber: How Changing Your Diet Changes Your Gut Bacteria | Top Indian electricity generator NTPC has rejected the emissions-cutting technology of GE and other foreign firms for its coal-fired plants, documents show, shutting them out of an estimated $2 billion in orders. | mixture | akkermansia,Fiber,gut bacteria | Despite struggling with some of the world’s worst air pollution levels, India has already pushed back a deadline to cut emission levels to up to 2022, after extensive lobbying by power producers who cited high costs and technical difficulties. The rejection of the foreign technology comes at a time when over half of co... |
37955 | Soaking pumpkins in a bleach bath of ten parts water or one part bleach extends their lifespan. | A viral Facebook post was correct in indicating that a “bleach bath” could preserve pumpkins, but its ratio of one part of bleach to ten parts water was far stronger than the ratio recommended by Clorox, on a page designed to sell more bleach. Although other sites (like BobVila.com and ApartmentTherapy.com) recommended... | mixture | Fact Checks, Viral Content | As Halloween loomed, a September 26 2020 Facebook post advising users to give pumpkins a “bleach bath” proved extremely popular, racking up a six-figure share count in just a few days:Alongside an image of a carved pumpkin in a bucket, the original poster wrote:Did you know if you give your pumpkins a bleach bath (1 pa... |
6553 | Czech hospital says baby girl born to brain-dead mother. | A Czech clinic says a baby girl has been born to a brain-dead woman kept on life support for nearly three months to allow her pregnancy to go ahead. | true | Health, General News, Europe, Brno | The University Hospital in the second-largest Czech city of Brno said Tuesday the 2.1-kilogram (4.6-pound) baby was born by cesarean section when the mother was 34 weeks pregnant. The hospital statement did not provide details on the baby’s health, but Czech public television said the girl — born earlier this month — i... |
11617 | A single test to detect many winter ailments | This story does a good job of presenting accurate, comprehensive information about the xTag Respiratory Viral Panel. The xTag test was recently approved by the FDA and is the first of its kind to provide early detection of multiple respiratory viruses. These viruses can cause acute respiratory infections such as the co... | true | This story does a good job of providing the cost of the XTag respiratory panel, $300-400, and cost-related information. The test is relatively expensive but is also covered by insurance. The story presents several benefits of the xTag test. It is 1) more sensitive and more comprehensive than currently available tests a... | |
3079 | Gerwig talks ‘Little Women’ for academy’s women initiative. | With a new awards season underway, the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences hosted a luncheon Wednesday supporting female filmmakers and celebrating the women behind Greta Gerwig’s upcoming “Little Women.” | true | Laura Poitras, Cynthia Erivo, Academy Awards, New York, Entertainment, Laura Dern, Jane Rosenthal, Movies, Amy Pascal, Meg Ryan, Science, Greta Gerwig, Constance Wu | The event, held at Rockefeller Center’s Rainbow Room, drew much of New York’s filmmaking elite and many of the faces likely to be seen throughout the coming season, including actors Constance Wu (“Hustlers”), Cynthia Erivo (“Harriet”) and Meg Ryan; producers Christine Vachon (“Dark Waters”) and Jane Rosenthal (“The Iri... |
7540 | Fauci: ‘We’re not there yet’ on key steps to reopen economy. | Dr. Anthony Fauci, the government’s top infectious disease expert, said Tuesday the U.S. does not yet have the critical testing and tracing procedures needed to begin reopening the nation’s economy, adding a dose of caution to increasingly optimistic projections from the White House. | true | AP Top News, Understanding the Outbreak, Health, Anthony Fauci, General News, Politics, Business, Infectious diseases, Donald Trump, Virus Outbreak, Economy | “We have to have something in place that is efficient and that we can rely on, and we’re not there yet,” Fauci said in an interview with The Associated Press. Fauci’s comments come as President Donald Trump and others in the administration weigh how quickly businesses can reopen and Americans can get back to work weeks... |
35253 | All hotels in Las Vegas have made donations to help emergency personnel in the city except for one: Trump International Hotel. | What's true: Some Vegas hotels have donated rooms (or food) to healthcare workers and first responders who need to quarantine themselves away from home. The Trump International Hotel Las Vegas does not appear to be one of them, according to one news investigation. What's false: However, not all of the city's dozens of ... | mixture | Politics, COVID-19 | Like most other U.S. governors in spring 2020, Nevada Gov. Steve Sisolak on March 20 ordered all nonessential businesses to close — including Las Vegas’ many casinos and hotels — and urged residents to stay home to prevent the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus disease. Meanwhile, a growing number of Nevada nurses, doc... |
7181 | Baltimore mayor’s $500K book deal draws intense criticism. | A search is underway in Maryland for “Healthy Holly” — not a fugitive or a missing citizen, but a self-published children’s book series authored by Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh and sold for half a million dollars to a health care system whose board of directors she sat on for nearly two decades. | true | U.S. News, Health, Childrens books, University of Maryland, Catherine Pugh, Maryland, U.S. News, Baltimore | Since 2011, Pugh received $500,000 selling her illustrated books to the University of Maryland Medical System, a $4 billion hospital network that’s one of the largest private employers in the state. Since the arrangement was exposed by The Baltimore Sun earlier this month, she’s stepped down from the volunteer board an... |
13911 | "Harris County, Texas has ""some of the highest jailing and incarceration rates in the U.S. and the world." | Ellis said Harris County has some of the highest jailing and incarceration rates in the U.S. and the world. Harris County's rate -- calculated as the number of inmates per 100,000 residents -- exceeds the rates for the United States and world though we found jurisdictions including Dallas County with higher rates. To b... | true | Corrections and Updates, Criminal Justice, Texas, Rodney Ellis, | "Editor’s note, July 8, 2016: We originally published this fact check on June 13 and rated the statement False. After that, experts pointed out we left out a step in our calculation of Harris County’s incarceration rate. We have updated our story and the rating has changed. You may read an archived version of the origi... |
31684 | A new tactic used by abductors and carjackers is to leave a shirt on a windshield to lure women out of their cars. | UPDATE: 24 February 2017 — We changed the status of this page from “Unproven” to “False” with the addition of the statement from the Flint Township police. | false | Crime, carjack, human trafficking, sex trafficking | On 16 February 2017, Facebook user Ashley Hardacre published the following image and warning, claiming that abductors and thieves were employing a new tactic to lure potential female victims out of their cars: As some of you know I work at a store in the Mall out in Flint. I worked a closing shift tonight so me and the... |
33612 | "Rub-on ""tattoos"" of cartoon characters laced with LSD are handed out to children by unscrupulous drug dealers." | Drug dealers hand out LSD-laced tattoos of cartoon characters to schoolchildren? | false | Horrors, ASP Article, Drug Horrors, Parental Nightmares | This bit of scarelore dates to at least the late 1970s, and it still makes little logical sense. A dealer looking to recruit new customers would do better to distribute a more addictive drug than LSD, handing out LSD-soaked candy would work far more effectively than passing around LSD-impregnated papers which require t... |
24550 | "Preventive care ""saves money." | Obama says preventive care saves money. It doesn't. | false | National, Health Care, Barack Obama, | "President Barack Obama defended his health care plan in a speech to a joint session of Congress, promoting the benefits of reform for those who already have coverage. One of those benefits, he said, is that insurers will be required to cover checkups and other preventive care. ""Insurance companies will be required to... |
11478 | More evidence prostate tests overdiagnose cancer | A recent study in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute injects more controversy to the question of the utility of prostate-specific antigen (PSA) testing. The study estimates that between 23 and 42 percent of cancers found with PSA testing would never go on to cause a problem or be detected by other means (i.e.... | true | The story does not mention the cost of PSA testing or the costs of prostate cancer treatment. Overtesting that leads to overtreatment has significant cost implications and should be part of the story. The story provides percentages of the cases that are thought to be overdiagnosis, that is cancers that were found by PS... | |
6076 | Hospital’s water now OK to use after Legionnaires’ outbreak. | Patients at a hospital in Ohio where there has been an outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease can now use the water inside the recently opened medical center near Columbus. | true | Columbus, Health, General News, Legionnaires disease, Grove, Ohio | Mount Carmel Health System said Thursday it has lifted water restrictions after installing new filters on the patient floors at Mount Carmel Grove City. More than a dozen people have been diagnosed with Legionnaires’ disease since April 29, the day after the hospital opened. One patient died last Sunday. Mount Carmel s... |
26488 | Gov. Andrew Cuomo “was simply saying if we can share 20 percent of your excess, your non-used ventilators, to help people in other parts of the state on a voluntary basis, that would be great. Of course, there was a reaction to that, which was not positive. | Cuomo said he would use the National Guard to redeploy unused ventilators and personal protective equipment to hospitals in greatest need. Some upstate hospital officials and politicians reacted with great concern to this plan. When the plan changed, hospital executives who had been concerned said they were happy to wo... | false | New York, Coronavirus, Kathy Hochul, | "Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul has been talking to news outlets across New York State about the Covid-19 crisis. In a recent appearance on WIVB-TV in Buffalo, she talked about the availability of ventilators. Anchor Luke Moretti asked Hochul: ""What’s the situation with the ventilators? I know there was that bit of a back and ... |
35222 | "Author C. S. Lewis wrote a passage in ""The Screwtape Letters"" involving Satan wanting to ""shut down businesses"" and Jesus wanting to restore the family unit. " | Jesus: I will bring together neighbours, restore the family unit, I will bring dinner back to the kitchen table. I will help people slow down their lives and appreciate what really matters. I will teach my children to rely on me and not the world. I will teach my children to trust me and not their money and material re... | false | Questionable Quotes, COVID-19 | In late March 2020, an image supposedly showing an excerpt from author C. S. Lewis’ “The Screw Tape Letters” started to circulate on social media among users who claimed that the passage was especially pertinent when so many people find themselves homebound due to the COVID-19 coronavirus disease pandemic: The excerpt... |
26840 | Bloomberg says he wants to ban guns holding more than three rounds. | U.S. states filed a lawsuit accusing Teva Pharmaceuticals USA Inc of orchestrating a sweeping scheme with 19 other drug companies to inflate drug prices - sometimes by more than 1,000% - and stifle competition for generic drugs, state prosecutors said on Saturday. | false | Facebook Fact-checks, Guns, Facebook posts, | Soaring drug prices from both branded and generic manufacturers have sparked outrage and investigations in the United States. The criticism has come from across the political spectrum, from President Donald Trump, a Republican, to progressive Democrats including U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren, who is running for preside... |
6880 | Sabres’ Okposo eager to look forward now that he’s healthy. | Buffalo Sabres forward Kyle Okposo happily looks to the future now that he’s fully recovered from concussion-related symptoms which nearly derailed his career in March. | true | NHL hockey, Health, Kyle Okposo, Buffalo, Buffalo Sabres | Saying he’s not dwelling on the past, Okposo was eager to rejoin the Sabres after skating with numerous teammates for practice a little more than a week before the team opens training camp. Though he’s has been skating for much of the summer, Tuesday marked his first time on the ice in Buffalo since being hospitalized ... |
11531 | Gastric Bypass Best for Weight Loss, Study Finds | This story also was better than the LA Times story in other small but tangible ways, including its handling of the statistics on benefits and harms and its discussion of costs. More context on the previous research that has been conducted in this field — and particularly the well-established differences in surgical mor... | true | HealthDay | The story notes that the average cost of weight loss surgery is about $30,000. It would have been helpful to include a comparison of the different procedures discussed in the story, but this is good enough. A little bit better job with the numbers than the LA Times. The same weight loss data are provided in absolute te... |
26000 | New York state “hospitals reporting thousands of fungus lung infections due to wearing a mask!!” | New York hospitals didn’t report this. There’s no evidence wearing a face mask properly causes fungal lung infections. | false | Facebook Fact-checks, New York, Coronavirus, Facebook posts, | """You can’t make this up,"" begins a Facebook post sharing what would be a shocking claim — if it were true. ""NYS hospitals reporting thousands of fungus lung infections due to wearing a mask!!"" The June 30 post was flagged as part of Facebook’s efforts to combat news and misinformation on its News Feed. (Read more... |
38083 | Essential oils can kill cats and mall animals. Social media posts warn those with cats to avoid certain essential oils. | Essential Oils Are Harmful to Cats and Small Animals . | true | Animals | Exposure to essential oils can be fatal for cats and small animals. But there’s not much scientific evidence about how risky essential oils are for cats, and what levels are safe. First, we’ll take a look at what essential oils are. They’re high concentrations of oils that occur naturally in plants. When mixed with sol... |
28820 | "Swedish police have introduced anti-sexual assault bracelets due to an increase in ""refugee rape." | What's true: Police in Sweden are distributing colored bracelets as a means of engaging young people and raising awareness about unwanted sexual advances. What's false: Swedish police did not create or distribute the bracelets in an attempt to dissuade refugees from raping Swedish women. | mixture | Politics Immigration, rape in sweden, refugees, sweden | On 30 June 2016, the Federalist Papers web site published an article reporting that police in Sweden were distributing distinctive bracelets to “stop refugee rape”: Police in Sweden have come up with a sure-fire way to stop Middle Eastern refugees from raping local women: wristbands that read “Don’t Touch Me.” In a pr... |
36613 | "Nearly one out of ten Americans think chocolate milk comes from ""brown cows." | Do Nearly Ten Percent of Americans Think Chocolate Milk Comes from Brown Cows? | unproven | Fact Checks, Viral Content | On December 9, 2018, the Facebook page “Unbelievable facts” shared the following meme, which held that nearly ten percent of Americans genuinely believed that chocolate milk was produced by brown cows:That article reported that a study had been conducted to reach alarming figures suggesting that a large contingent of A... |
41806 | During the Obama administration 18 children died while in custody of Border Patrol | Q: Is it accurate that “18 children died while in custody of Border Patrol” during the Obama administration?A: No. Prior to two children’s deaths in December, it had been more than a decade since a child died while in the custody of U.S. Customs and Border Protection. | false | Customs and Border Protection, Illegal immigration, | Q: Is it accurate that “18 children died while in custody of Border Patrol” during the Obama administration? A: No. Prior to two children’s deaths in December, it had been more than a decade since a child died while in the custody of U.S. Customs and Border Protection.18 children died in Border Patrol custody during th... |
10400 | Women’s Health Alert: New Anti-Cancer Vaccine | A vaccine against the virus that causes most cervical cancers is an important new preventive tool, and the implications are far-reaching for future generations of women who will be spared much of the anxiety and invasive monitoring that is part of cervical cancer screening today. However, two issues make this story unb... | false | Given that the story cites worldwide cervical cancer statistics to explain the importance of this vaccine, it would have been helpful to note how much the vaccine will cost. The story states that the vaccine will “greatly reduce” the risk for problems related to HPV infection. It would have been helpful to include esti... | |
8884 | Still no autism-vaccine link, say health officials. | Federal health officials said on Thursday the government has not conceded that vaccines cause autism even after a Georgia girl won federal compensation in a case arguing a vaccine led to her brain damage. | true | Health News | A nurse extracts a vaccine in a file photo. Federal health officials said on Thursday the government has not conceded that vaccines cause autism even after a Georgia girl won federal compensation in a case arguing a vaccine led to her brain damage. REUTERS/Phil Klein Hannah Poling, 9, had a rare mitochondrial disorder... |
31160 | Chester Bennington and Chris Cornell were murdered because they were about to reveal a ring of pedophiles. | Your News Wire is not a reliable source of information — they regularly post inaccurate articles and unfounded conspiracy theories. There is no evidence that Bennington or Cornell were murdered in an effort to cover up a debunked pedophile sex ring. | false | Politics | On 21 July 2017, the junk news website Your News Wire (now News Punch) published a story reporting that Linkin Park singer Chester Bennington, who passed away on 20 July 2017 in his Palos Verdes Estates home near Los Angeles, had been murdered in similar fashion to his friend, Soundgarden singer Chris Cornell, who died... |
897 | Cannabis among top priorities for new Thai government. | Developing a medical cannabis industry is among top policy priorities for Thailand’s new government, according to a document released before the formal announcement. | true | Health News | Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha, the former junta leader who heads a civilian government following March elections, is due to set out the policies for debate in the national assembly on Thursday. The policy document was released on Sunday. Developing the medical cannabis industry was a key demand of the Bhumjaithai pa... |
40976 | Anti-inflammatories should be used to fight Covid-19. | Anti-inflammatories such as ibuprofen may be useful in treating Covid-19 symptoms at home. | mixture | online | Antibiotics should be used to fight Covid-19. Antibiotics are not recommended in patients with Covid-19. Covid-19 is caused by a virus and antibiotics are used to prevent or treat bacterial infections. Antivirals should be used to fight Covid-19. Antiviral drugs can be used to treat viral infections, but no specific an... |
7388 | Scientist links 2 state outbreaks with genetic fingerprints. | A U.S. scientist is helping public health authorities understand and track the coronavirus, turning up clues about how it arrived and spread through Washington state and beyond, including potentially seeding an outbreak on the Grand Princess cruise ship. | true | Virus Outbreak, Genetics, Understanding the Outbreak, Health, General News, Washington, Science, Seattle, Public health, U.S. News | Washington’s governor banned large public events in three counties on Wednesday, a strategy guided by the work of Trevor Bedford and his colleagues, who have estimated there are currently 1,100 active cases in the state, most of them undiscovered by testing. Like a detective studying fingerprints, Bedford uses the gene... |
6598 | NBA coaches’ new play: tending to health to cope with grind. | Luke Walton began a wellness program for his Lakers coaching staff. Steve Kerr reached out to Steve Clifford after each spent significant time away from the sideline because of debilitating headaches and other symptoms. | true | Steve Clifford, Health, Doc Rivers, North America, Steve Kerr, Coaching, Sports, Basketball, Luke Walton, NBA | Coaches around the league are taking preventive measures to help deal with the grind and stresses of a long NBA season. That hasn’t always been the case. Now, the NBA Coaches Association provides guidance to its members on everything from diet and exercise to sleep and mental health. “Well, we’re trying. We all are try... |
35816 | When it comes to protecting against COVID-19 transmission, neck gaiters are worse than wearing no mask at all. | “We noticed that speaking through some masks (particularly the neck fleece) seemed to disperse the largest droplets into a multitude of smaller droplets, which explains the apparent increase in droplet count relative to no mask in that case,” wrote the researchers. “Considering that smaller particles are airborne longe... | false | Medical, COVID-19 | As the world continued to grapple with changing restrictions and recommendations surrounding the coronavirus pandemic, rumors persisted into late summer 2020 regarding scientific understanding behind the effectiveness of certain face coverings used to reduce COVID-19 transmission. In August, a number of news publicatio... |
11594 | Menopause Therapy Sparks Controversy | This broadcast piece does a reasonable job of framing the use of custom-mixed 'bioidentical' hormones as an alternative to commercially available hormone therapies for relieving menopausal symptoms. However, it relies exclusively on interviews, and does not tell the whole story about the available evidence on these pro... | mixture | No mention of cost. The story doesn't provide any information about how many women are helped, or how much. Story quotes an expert who asserts that bioidentical hormones have same possible harms as other forms, as well as other possible downsides related to 'custom mixing' of these unregulated products. It's not possib... | |
26660 | President Donald Trump “will evoke (sic) what is called the Stafford act” and “order a two week mandatory quarantine for the nation.” | There is no evidence that the federal government is set to announce a nationwide lockdown. President Trump said March 16 that he was not considering it. Trump said the government is thinking about additional measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in some hotspots around the country. The Stafford Act authorizes aid ... | false | Public Health, Facebook Fact-checks, Coronavirus, Facebook posts, | "Social media users are misinterpreting a federal disaster relief law to promote a hoax about a nationwide quarantine. A Facebook post published March 16 includes a screenshot of another post from a page called Ninety Degree Turns. It claims that President Donald Trump will soon lock down the entire country to prevent ... |
28510 | President Donald Trump hosted the National Rifle Association at the White House on the anniversary of the Sandy Hook massacre. | What's true: A White House Christmas party was held on 14 December 2017 (the anniversary of the Sandy Hook massacre); the National Rifle Association's Wayne LaPierre was among attendees. What's false: President Trump did not host only the NRA on that specific date; LaPierre was one of many individuals invited to one of... | mixture | Politics Guns, donald trump, nra, sandy hook | On 15 December 2017, progressive blogs reported that President Trump had hosted the head of the National Rifle Association at the White House on the fifth anniversary of Sandy Hook massacre, in which a gunman murdered twenty children and seven adults in Connecticut before killing himself: The article began: Not only d... |
36070 | "An image shows a mite known as ""Demodex,"" which lives on your face." | ‘Lonely? Don’t Be. Demodex is the Name of a Mite that Lives on Your Face. Friends Forever!’ Meme | mixture | Fact Checks, Viral Content | On October 25 2019, the Facebook page “Cheerful Nihilism” shared the following meme, purportedly depicting a Demodex mite, which according to the meme lives on human faces:Above an apparent illustration of an alien-like insect, text read:Are you lonely? Don’t be. Demodex is a type of mite that lives on your face. Frien... |
10422 | Mini medical miracles: Getting rid of wrinkles | "This story was a classic case of disease-mongering. The anchor lead-in states that this segment was part of a four-part series on ""mini-medical miracles."" The anchor said: ""This week we’ve checked out potential breakthroughs in treatments for baldness, insomnia and dandruff. Today we end with wrinkles. Could having... | false | "The reporter says ""it’s going to cost three to five thousand dollars."" That’s too broad a range to be helpful to the viewer. There is also no cost comparison with any of the other multitude of wrinkle ""treatments"" already on the market. Most important, there is no discussion of whether insurers are likely to cover... | |
58 | Bristol-Myers misses main goal of late-stage skin cancer trial. | Bristol-Myers Squibb Co said on Wednesday a late-stage trial testing a combination of its cancer drugs missed a main goal of preventing skin cancer from recurring in a certain group of patients, sending its shares down nearly 1%. | true | Health News | The company said the trial will continue unchanged as per the recommendation of a data monitoring committee. The trial was testing Bristol-Myers’ drugs Opdivo and Yervoy, against Opdivo alone, in patients with advanced melanoma. The combination failed to show a statistically significant benefit in patients whose tumors... |
29110 | A list of safety tips offers effective counters to being victimized in random violent crimes. | The world is not awash with rapists, murderers, thieves, and kidnappers, but a bit of common sense routinely applied can help you avoid meeting up with any of the handful that are actually out there. Rather than fret about how to properly throw an elbow, or whether you should run from someone holding a gun on you, or h... | mixture | Crime, Crime Prevention Tips, crime warnings | We first encountered versions of the following list of crime safety tips in 2001, and it has since been widely circulated under titles such as “Safety Tips for Women” (although its advice is intended for members of both genders) and “Written by a Cop”: WRITTEN BY A COP: Everyone should take 5 minutes to read this. It ... |
5489 | Johannesburg wildlife clinic saves animals hurt in city. | At the edge of a sprawling Johannesburg suburb, a veterinary hospital is saving the lives of wildlife on the urban fringes. | true | Wildlife, Animals, Johannesburg, Africa, South Africa, Science, Pretoria | “I’d love to be in the bush, but I get more cases here,” said veterinary rehabilitation specialist Nicci Wright. Wright founded the hospital two years ago with veterinarian Dr. Karin Lourens and since then has treated about 4,000 animals. With the expansion of Pretoria and Johannesburg, South Africa’s capital city and ... |
3233 | Trump again criticizes ailing McCain over health care vote. | President Donald Trump renewed his criticism of John McCain for the senator’s dramatic thumbs-down deciding vote last year against the GOP health care repeal. | true | Health care reform, John McCain, Politics, Meghan McCain, Donald Trump | Without using McCain’s name, Trump spoke of his move in December that effectively defeated the overhaul in a close vote. The president told the Conservative Political Action Conference that “except for one Senator, who came into a room at three o’clock in the morning and went like that,” Trump gave a thumbs-down, “we w... |
8801 | J&J recalling certain lots of drugs after theft. | Johnson & Johnson said on Thursday it was voluntarily recalling specific lots of three of its medicines to protect patients from receiving potentially mishandled or damaged products after a truck carrying the drugs was stolen. | true | Health News | The truck, which was stolen earlier this month while en route from a distribution center in Kentucky to a specialty distributor, was carrying the anemia treatment Procrit, the rheumatoid arthritis drug Remicade and the cancer medicine Doxil. The theft was reported to local and federal law enforcement offices, as well a... |
7489 | White House pushes unproven drug for virus, but doctors wary. | President Donald Trump and his administration are promoting an anti-malaria drug not officially approved for fighting the new coronavirus, even though scientists say more testing is needed before it’s proven safe and effective against COVID-19. | true | AP Top News, Understanding the Outbreak, Malaria, International News, Peter Navarro, General News, Politics, Health, Medication, Virus Outbreak, Donald Trump | Trump trade adviser Peter Navarro championed hydroxychloroquine in television interviews Monday, a day after the president publicly put his faith in the medication to lessen the toll of the coronavirus pandemic. “What do I know, I’m not a doctor,” Trump said Sunday. “But I have common sense.” In promoting the drug’s po... |
39798 | Scores of mourners at a funeral in Mozambique, Africa, died after they drank a traditional homebrewed beer that was poisoned with crocodile bile. | Crocodile Bile Tainted Beer Kills Dozens in African | unproven | 9/11 Attack on America | "It’s true that dozens of mourners died after drinking a traditional beer in Africa, but their cause of death isn’t yet clear. The eRumor started after the Associated Press reported that the beer had likely been poisoned with crocodile bile: MAPUTO, Mozambique (AP) — When a crocodile is killed, the bile of the anim... |
5709 | St. Jude: $100M for children with cancer global outreach. | St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital has helped with the treatment of thousands of cancer-stricken children around the world. Striving to reach so many more, the Memphis, Tennessee-based hospital announced a $100 million plan Thursday to expand its global outreach. | true | Cancer, Health, North America, Tennessee, Carlos Rodriguez, Diagnosis and treatment, Memphis | President and CEO James R. Downing told doctors and media that the St. Jude Global program’s goal is ambitious — to influence the care of as much as 30 percent of children with cancer worldwide in the next decade. He said he hopes the investment will improve access and quality of medical care for many children who migh... |
28635 | "The first ""radioactive salmon"" attributed to the Fukushima nuclear disaster have been found in British Columbia, Canada, posing a risk to human health." | What's true: A single salmon found in the Osoyoos Lake in British Columbia in 2015 (first reported in November 2016) had low but detectable levels of the radioactive isotope cesium-134, universally acknowledged as a marker for Fukushima radiation. What's false: This single fish, whose radiation levels were well below a... | mixture | Science, cesium, fukushima, radiation | On 10 February 2017, OrganicAndHealthy.org published a story with the frightening headline “Fukushima: First Images Emerge Of Radioactive Salmon In Canada”. While this post did, in fact, come with a stock image of Canadian salmon, it did not deliver on its promise of visual evidence of radioactive salmon, instead provi... |
921 | High and dry: Alpine resorts grapple with climate change. | The prospect of searing heatwaves driving holidaymakers to cool mountains and children asking grandparents about their memories of snow is focusing minds in Alpine ski resorts on the implications of climate change. | true | Environment | With global warming widely expected to slash snowfall, especially at lower levels, the Swiss tourism industry is looking for ways to preserve a lucrative business brutally exposed to the weather. Enter Napa, Serbia’s last circus bear. The Arosa ski resort in eastern Switzerland has created a $6.5 million refuge hosting... |
41005 | A 103 year-old Chinese grandmother has made a full recovery from Covid-19 after being treated for 6 days in Wuhan, China | This has been widely reported in the media. | true | online | Doctors in India have been successful in treating coronavirus with a combination of drugs (Lopinavir, Retonovir, Oseltamivir along with Chlorphenamine) and are going to suggest the same medicine globally. India’s ministry of health has advised that the anti-HIV drugs, Lopinavir and Retonovir, are used in some groups of... |
1165 | Gene-editing startups ignite the next 'Frankenfood' fight. | In a suburban Minneapolis laboratory, a tiny company that has never turned a profit is poised to beat the world’s biggest agriculture firms to market with the next potential breakthrough in genetic engineering - a crop with “edited” DNA. | true | Environment | Calyxt Inc, an eight-year-old firm co-founded by a genetics professor, altered the genes of a soybean plant to produce healthier oil using the cutting-edge editing technique rather than conventional genetic modification. Seventy-eight farmers planted those soybeans this spring across 17,000 acres in South Dakota and Mi... |
23731 | “In Rick Perry’s Texas, we import nurses ... from other countries.” | White: In Perry's Texas, we import nurses | mixture | Health Care, Texas, Bill White, | "What do nurses and welders have in common? According to Bill White, the Democratic gubernatorial nominee, those are two jobs in the state that foreign workers fill. During his June 25 speech to delegates at the Texas Democratic Party convention in Corpus Christi, White said the values of his Republican opponent, who h... |
26351 | “Immigrants make up a majority of essential workers in places like New York City.” | Gillibrand’s number is backed up by a New York City comptroller’s office study that found that 53% of all “frontline” workers in the city are immigrants. However, the comptroller’s definition doesn’t include government workers such as first responders and differs from the state’s definition of “essential workers.” So i... | true | Immigration, Workers, New York, Coronavirus, Kirsten Gillibrand, | "When President Trump announced a plan to suspend immigration to the United States, New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand tweeted the news with her own assessment of the decision: ""Immigrants make up a majority of essential workers in places like New York City,"" the Democrat wrote April 21. ""They're on the front lines of... |
34678 | The red dye commonly used in nectar for backyard feeders is harmful to hummingbirds. | Some bird lovers fear the presence of their nectar dispensers will tempt the little birds to delay migration, causing coddled hummers to become trapped by the sudden onset of cold weather. Yet they need not so fearful, because the hummingbird’s instinct to migrate is too strong to be sidetracked. When it’s time to go, ... | unproven | Critter Country, hummingbirds, red dye, Wild Inaccuracies | In the 1970s DDT, a highly effective pesticide then widely in use in the U.S., was believed to be threatening the continuation of a number of bird species. Reports claimed that bald eagles, ospreys, and peregrine falcons exposed to the chemical laid eggs with abnormally thin shells which broke during incubation and res... |
27631 | Article details efforts of John Glenn's wife to overcome stuttering. | “Annie was never silent to me,” [Glenn] says. “But to see her at this age branch out to things she was interested in but could never participate in …” | true | Glurge Gallery, ASP Article | Most Americans are familiar with the exploits of John Glenn, a former U.S. Marine Corps pilot who, as one of the original Mercury 7 astronauts, was transformed into a national hero after becoming the first American to orbit the Earth on 20 February 1962. Later in life he represented Ohio in the United States Senate for... |
27660 | A daughter expressed her not-so-warm feelings about her deceased mother by running a scathing and caustic obituary. | A daughter expressed her not-so-warm feelings about her deceased mother by running a scathing and caustic obituary. | true | Humor, obituary | Most newspaper obituaries adhere to one of a handful of set formulas that incorporate listing the name of the deceased, date of passing, predeceasing and surviving relatives, and where and when services will be held. Some deviate from this standard by providing additional information about the departed, information tha... |
11803 | "A Colgate toothpaste is subject to ""recall." | "Shared This stated that the FDA issued a ban on triclosan, which is an ingredient in soap, toothpaste and other products. The article included photos of Colgate toothpaste and uses an image of the word ""recall."" In reality the FDA’s ban in September 2016 only applied to antibacterial soaps and not Colgate Total toot... | false | Fake news, Health Care, PunditFact, Shared This, | "A headline warns consumers about triclosan, an ingredient in some consumer products: ""If you are using this toothpaste .... throw it away immediately!"" Facebook users flagged the Nov. 28 story on Shared This as being potentially fabricated, as part of the social network’s efforts to combat fake news. The article cou... |
13724 | Illinois suffered 1,652 overdose deaths in 2014 ... of which 40 percent were associated with heroin. Illinois is ranked number one in the nation for a decline in treatment capacity between 2007 and 2012, and is now ranked the third worst in the country for state-funded treatment capacity. | "Durbin said, ""Illinois suffered 1,652 overdose deaths in 2014 ... of which 40 percent were associated with heroin. Illinois is ranked number one in the nation for a decline in treatment capacity between 2007 and 2012, and is now ranked the third worst in the country for state-funded treatment capacity."" The drug ove... | true | Drugs, Illinois, Richard Durbin, | "U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., has been one of the most vocal members in Congress in the fight against the growing heroin and opioid epidemic in Illinois and across the country. Durbin has introduced a handful of measures to expand and improve access to treatment programs for heroin addiction, as well as legislation t... |
10950 | Once-a-day heart combo pill shows promise in study | "This story accurately reported on the results of a recent study and at the same time engendered enthusiasm not supported by the current data for the use of a single pill that contained a group of 5 different medications for heart disease. While the study enrolled individuals who could be calculated to be at increased ... | true | As this is not an available treatment, the cost was presented as something not yet known. The story suggested that the cost for the pill would likely be something less than $17/month – the cost for its component medications. The story did not provide a rational for why the expected costs would be less than the costs fo... | |
33624 | Only two Coca-Cola executives know Coke's formula, and each of them knows only half of it. | This great-grandfather who did the scribbling was Frank Mason Robinson, who was a partner of pharmacist John Pemberton. Robinson named the drink in 1886 and wrote the famous label in flowing script. | false | Cokelore | For three quarters of a century, rumors about the measures the Coca-Cola Company has employed to keep the formula of its flagship product a secret have been used to enhance consumer perception of Coca-Cola‘s specialness. The company has courted the media on this issue, establishing through repetition the belief that ... |
5957 | Environmental justice issues focus of town hall. | Former Vice President Al Gore and the Rev. William Barber II, co-chair of the national Poor People’s Campaign, held a town hall in Alabama to spotlight environmental justice issues. | true | Al Gore, Environment, Alabama | The two on Thursday toured a Lowndes County neighborhood where residents say the sewage system regularly overflows into their yards and homes. They then held a town hall in Hayneville. Charlie Mae Holcombe, 70, of Hayneville, said heavy rains are always a sign of trouble. Holcombe described the problems she faced as Go... |
35143 | U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi held up a coronavirus funding package so that Democrats could run negative ads about Republicans that made the latter look bad. | Trump soon signed the funding bill into law, on March 6. | false | Politics, coronavirus, COVID-19, kevin mccarthy | As cases of COVID-19 caused by a new coronavirus grew in the U.S. amid a global outbreak, U.S. lawmakers attacked each other over the government’s response to the illness in early 2020. One such example: A Republican Twitter account accused U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of delaying a vote on a coronavirus-funding pac... |
7442 | Wyoming to loosen COVID-19 restaurant, bar, gathering rules. | Wyoming will again allow people to dine in at restaurants, meet in bars and gather in larger numbers as the state continues to post some of the lowest coronavirus infection numbers in the U.S., Gov. Mark Gordon said Wednesday. | true | General News, Wyoming, Mark Gordon, Virus Outbreak, Public health | Bar and restaurant tables will need to seat no more than 6 people at a time and be spaced at least 6 feet (2 meters) apart. Staff must wear face coverings and be screened for symptoms of COVID-19 under new state public health orders taking effect Friday. As many as 25 people — up from 10 currently — will be allowed to ... |
41855 | We found that China has been attempting to interfere in our upcoming 2018 election. | At a United Nations meeting, President Donald Trump claimed the U.S. “found that China has been attempting to interfere in our upcoming 2018 election.” But the president offered no evidence of covert actions, such as the kind that Russia engaged in during the 2016 election. | unproven | 2018 elections, China, tariffs, | At a United Nations meeting, President Donald Trump claimed the U.S. “found that China has been attempting to interfere in our upcoming 2018 election.” But the president offered no evidence of covert actions, such as the kind that Russia engaged in during the 2016 election.Instead, Trump criticized China for publicly t... |
18019 | "Marco Rubio Says President Barack Obama could ""basically"" legalize all immigrants here illegally ""by the sign of a pen." | "Rubio said that absent immigration reform from Congress, Obama ""will be tempted to issue an executive order like he did for the DREAM Act kids a year ago, where he basically legalizes 11 million people by the sign of a pen."" Could Obama offer deferred action for the entire population of undocumented immigrants? His ... | false | Immigration, Florida, Marco Rubio, | "U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio has a dire message for conservatives who oppose immigration reform: Do something to improve the status quo, or President Barack Obama could make the situation much worse. ""I’ve been saying now I believe that this president will be tempted, if nothing happens in Congress, he will be tempted to is... |
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