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36122 | "Sometimes television and films use computer-generated tails for dogs or wolves because the animals are so excited to be doing ""a good job"" that they won't stop wagging their tails." | ‘Sometimes Dogs or Wolves in Movies Need CGI Tails Because They’re So Excited to be Doing a Good Job Acting’ | mixture | Fact Checks, Viral Content | "On October 6 2019, the following post spread rapidly on Facebook, concerning wolves and dogs in the movie industry and how they may sometimes need computer-generated editing to make them look less happy or excited:View post on imgur.comBeneath an image of a dog, text read:Maybe not mind-blowing, but sometimes dogs/wol... |
3446 | Paris streets near Notre Dame to be decontaminated from lead. | Paris authorities shut down streets surrounding the Notre Dame Cathedral to decontaminate them Tuesday, after high levels of lead were registered in the area following the April blaze that damaged the landmark. | true | Lead poisoning, Health, General News, Notre Dame Cathedral, Paris, Fires, Travel, Poisoning, Europe, International News | The painstaking cleanup work inside Notre Dame itself was suspended last month for safety reasons, as activists and residents accused authorities of underestimating the threat of lead poisoning. Hundreds of tons of lead melted in the fire, which destroyed the cathedral’s metal and wood roof. Authorities have launched m... |
3643 | Sao Paulo zoo reopens after yellow fever scare. | Brazilian officials have reopened Sao Paulo’s zoo and botanical gardens after a monkey was killed by the yellow fever virus. | true | Brazil, Caribbean, Health, Environment, Sao Paulo, Monkeys | The Sao Paulo state Environmental Secretary says the virus that killed a monkey was an isolated case and the transmission risk was low. The virus has not been detected in the area occupied by the two parks. Both have been closed since Jan. 23 and were reopened on Thursday. A total of 29 other parks in the city of Sao P... |
16165 | "Austin mayoral candidate Steve Adler has ""never been active in anything that has to do with City Hall." | "Martinez said Adler has ""never been active in anything that has to do with City Hall."" Adler hasn’t been a member of city boards or commissions and we accept Martinez’s assertion Adler hasn’t addressed the council. Then again, Adler had a leadership hand in developing the hate crimes task force and the city’s cultur... | false | Candidate Biography, City Government, Criminal Justice, Crime, Texas, Mike Martinez, | "Austin mayoral candidate Mike Martinez says his opponent, Steve Adler, lacks experience in municipal matters. Martinez, an Austin City Council member since 2006, told Austin’s KVUE-TV for a news story aired Nov. 11, 2014: ""He’s never been active in anything that has to do with City Hall,"" stressing ""anything."" Adl... |
5311 | Solar eclipse, loveable baby hippo warmed hearts in 2017. | It wasn’t all doom and gloom in 2017. The year was also filled with awe-inspiring moments that united us and warmed the heart. | true | AP Top News, Solar eclipses, Science, Eclipses, U.S. News, 2017 - The Year in Review | The first total solar eclipse to cross the U.S. in a century bought millions together in what some could only describe as a primal experience. Thousands of immigrants took the oath of citizenship, realizing their dreams of becoming Americans. And one adorable baby, Fiona the hippopotamus, became a story of survival as ... |
37535 | Rapunzel was quarantined in Tangled and she was from the kingdom of Corona. | Rapunzel Was Quarantined in ‘Tangled,’ Google the Name of Her Kingdom? | mixture | Fact Checks, Viral Content | As coronavirus quarantine memes circulated in mid-March 2020, one referenced the Disney film Tangled, first stating that Rapunzel was “quarantined” during the film, and then tacking on people should “Google” the name of her kingdom — purportedly because it was named “Corona”:If Rapunzel can entertain herself in her tow... |
37583 | Democratic lawmakers voted in February 2020 against protecting children born following an abortion procedure. | Did 41 Democrats Vote Against ‘Protecting Already Born Babies’? | false | Disinformation, Fact Checks | In February 2020, pundits and blogs launched a round of invective against Democratic Party lawmakers after a bill targeting healthcare providers fell short of garnering enough votes for debate on the Senate floor.The latest salvo followed a cloture vote regarding the “Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act,” a bi... |
1597 | Expectant couples avoiding Latin America, other Zika hotspots. | Expectant couples planning “babymoon” vacations are increasingly steering clear of Latin America and the Caribbean amid warnings about a suspected link between a Zika virus outbreak in the region and birth defects, travel agents say. | true | Health News | Airlines and hotel chains say it is too early to tell if the Zika epidemic is affecting bookings. But some “babymooners” - parents-to-be taking last-hurrah vacations - have backed out of trips and changed itineraries. “There’s been a lot of cancellations,” said Lauren Machowsky, a travel advisor at New York-based Smart... |
31532 | Adolf Hitler never used chemical weapons (against his own people). | Two days before Spicer’s remarks, French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen was criticized in her country for trying to downplay the role of French citizens who collaborated with the Germans in the deportation of Jewish citizens to Nazi camps in 1942, saying: “I think that in general, more generally, if there were th... | false | History, adolf hitler, Sarin gas, sean spicer | Critics responded with outrage after White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer said on 11 April 2017 that Adolf Hitler “didn’t even sink to using chemical weapons.” Spicer made the comments while criticizing Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s reported use of chemical weapons in an attack in northwestern Syria that killed... |
7137 | Apparent suicides renew concern for end of Minnesota hotline. | The apparent suicide by celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain Friday, just days after fashion designer Kate Spade’s, is renewing attention to Minnesota’s cash-starved suicide hotline, which is expected to shut down at the end of the month. | true | Health, Celebrity, Minnesota, Anthony Bourdain, Kate Spade, Mark Dayton | Funding for Crisis Connections, Minnesota’s half-century-old hotline, was a casualty of budget disputes between Gov. Mark Dayton and Republican lawmakers, leading to the governor’s veto. The timing couldn’t be worse, as statewide suicide rates have been rising. Public health officials agree that early intervention, inc... |
19906 | "Vincent Prieto Says Gov. Chris Christie’s proposed budget is ""the biggest spending budget in the history of the state of New Jersey. It is the largest in the nation at this point in time." | Gilead Sciences Inc (GILD.O) hopes to soon introduce a pricey new pill to prevent HIV in people at risk of contracting the infection, but the drugmaker faces opposition from an unusual source: patient advocates. | false | New Jersey, State Budget, States, Vincent Prieto, | Such groups have traditionally lobbied for insurance coverage of newer HIV drugs regardless of expense. But at least three U.S. organizations now question whether Gilead’s Descovy would be the best option for most people at risk of exposure. A generic version of the current prevention pill, Truvada, is due in the Unite... |
11441 | Adult stem cells help weak hearts | While attempting to update readers on a new experimental approach for heart disease, this article did not clearly explain that the use of autologous bone marrow stem cells in the treatment of ischemic heart disease was, indeed, an experimental approach currently being evaluated for safety and effectiveness. The results... | false | There were no estimates for the cost of this experimental approach. While it was interesting to see the results presented in terms of percent improvement, the article ought to have included some information regarding the statistical and clinical significance of these results. The editorialists in the New England Journa... | |
35977 | In 2018, Uber received 235 reports of rape, 280 reports of attempted rape and 5,981 reports of sexual abuse between 2017 and 2018. | Did Uber Receive 235 Reports of Rape and 5,981 Reports of Sexual Abuse? | true | Fact Checks, Viral Content | On December 8 2019, the Facebook page “Feminists United” shared a screenshot of the following tweet about 235 reports of rape purportedly received by Uber in a year:For every man that doesn't understand why women are fed up. Last year Uber received 235 reports of rape, 280 reports of attempted rape & 5,981 reports of s... |
16670 | "Mary Burke Says a $12.5 million incentive deal she approved for Abbott Laboratories contained ""strong protections for taxpayers if job creation goals were not met." | "Burke’s campaign said the $12.5 million incentive deal she approved for Abbott Laboratories contained ""strong protections for taxpayers if job creation goals were not met."" While the land provides some collateral, the deal’s protections and structure fell short of those used in many such cases, leaving the state vul... | false | Jobs, State Budget, Wisconsin, Mary Burke, | "Gov. Scott Walker alleges that former state Commerce Secretary Mary Burke ""wasted"" nearly $25 million in the so-far failed attempt to attract a major Abbott Laboratories expansion in Wisconsin. But Burke, Walker’s main Democratic challenger in the 2014 governor’s race, says her agency built tough failsafes into the ... |
6400 | Residents of Russian city protest ‘black sky’ air pollution. | Residents of Chelyabinsk are expressing worry over industrial pollution after heavy smog enveloped the Ural Mountains city this month and remained for two weeks. | true | Mountains, Industrial pollution, Health, Air pollution, Smog, Europe, Russia, Pollution | On Sunday, about 700 protesters braved temperatures of -20 degrees Celsius (-4 degrees Fahrenheit) to demand cleaner air. They held banners reading “We want clean skies!” and “Stop poisoning our children!” Low winds helped the thick grey layer of smog called “black sky” by the locals settle over the city of 1.2 million... |
6207 | As troops prepare to leave Afghanistan, will aid stream out?. | The children will inherit any peace that comes to Afghanistan, if only they can live to see it. | true | Afghanistan, AP Top News, Foreign aid, General News, Kabul, International News, Asia Pacific, Health, United States | Whimpering and badly malnourished, they are among the most vulnerable in a country that remains one of the poorest in the world. Now an expected United States-Taliban agreement to end nearly 18 years of fighting raises questions about whether the foreign aid largely propping up the country will drop as troops withdraw.... |
17469 | Forty years ago, hardly anybody in the country had health insurance. | "Gohmert said that ""40 years ago, hardly anybody in the country had health insurance."" Even ignoring the millions of Americans covered in 1974 by Medicare and Medicaid, 80 percent of Americans under age 65 back then had private insurance coverage, and a solid majority of those plans covered routine doctor visits and ... | false | National, Health Care, Louie Gohmert, | "Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Texas, went on Fox News recently to explain an unusual decision he’d made: intentionally going without health insurance. Fox host Brian Kilmeade asked Gohmert about it during an interview on Jan. 23, 2014. Gohmert told him, ""When Obamacare actually kicked in, just as we knew, if you liked your i... |
28437 | News media outlets misrepresented a photograph of a two-year-old migrant girl whose mother was arrested at the U.S-Mexico border as depicting an instance of family separation. | What's true: A photograph of a crying toddler widely used to illustrate mainstream media reports on the Trump administration's policy of separating immigrant families at the border was later found not to depict an instance of a child separated from her parents; in a very few instances, news outlets incorrectly reported... | mixture | Politics Immigration, family separation, immigrant children, viral images | Editor’s Note: This article is an updated version of the original from 22 June 2018, which has been rewritten to better frame the issue, provide additional detail, and correct errors, omissions, or ambiguities in the previous version. In June 2018, as the controversy surrounding the Trump administration’s “zero-toleran... |
9446 | New Treatment for Fibroids Without Surgery | This Wall Street Journal article describes the advent of a new oral medication, uliprital acetate, or UA, to treat severe bleeding and other symptoms associated with uterine fibroids. Although the article does a good job of putting Allergan’s new oral drug in context and noting alternative treatments (hysterectomy, myo... | true | fibroids,UA,uliprital acetate | The article does not offer any cost information. The article offers general statements about the “dramatic” and rapid effects of UA from Allergan researchers, but does not provide any numerical context or offer summaries of research with that information. The article notes the side effects of UA and potentially two oth... |
6380 | Arizona is only state where tribes avoid Medicaid work rules. | Arizona has become the only state in the country where members of federally recognized tribes are exempt from work or volunteer requirements for Medicaid benefits, while 120,000 state residents risk losing health coverage if they don’t comply. | true | Medicare, Arizona, Health, Politics, Native Americans, North America, Treaties, Business, Medicaid, U.S. News | The announcement came Friday from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, which said it believes the exemption is consistent with the tribes’ status as political entities. Early last year, the agency wrote to tribes saying exempting all Native Americans from work requirements could violate equal protection laws... |
19107 | "Bill Nelson Says Connie Mack initially said he would have voted ""yes"" for the Paul Ryan budget plan, and then, ""you said it was stupid and you would vote no. And then your folks corrected you, and you changed your position again, yes." | Four dominant e-cigarette manufacturers face a probe into the health impacts of their products, as the U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee asked on Wednesday about the firms’ research and marketing practices. | mixture | Candidate Biography, Federal Budget, Florida, Bill Nelson, | The committee sent letters to Juul Labs Inc, 35% owned by Marlboro maker Altria Group Inc, Fontem Ventures, Japan Tobacco Inc, and Reynolds American Inc, a unit of British American Tobacco Plc. The letter to Juul asked if the company has conducted or financed studies on the health implications of using its products and... |
11462 | Brain scans accurate at spotting autism: U.S. study | This story is one of two we reviewed describing new research in the use of diffusion tensor MRI. Unlike the competing story by CNN, this story starts off on the wrong foot and does not recover. The headline badly distorts the true value of the research study. The story itself does little to analyze the evidence, provid... | false | Autism,Reuters Health | The cost of the specialized MRI scan and its interpretation is not provided. MRI scans are a major driver of healthcare costs and the use of this technology as a routine screening instrument could have a significant direct financial impact. The cost of a routine MRI could have been provided The second sentence of the s... |
29333 | There is a meaningful link between terrorist attacks and the 22nd day of the month | "What's true: Certain terrorist attacks on the 22nd day of a month may have been commemorations of previous attacks on the 22nd day of the same month in previous years. What's false: The 22nd day of the month is statistically no more prone to attacks than any other day -- and even when terrorists do pick specific dates... | false | Politics | By our nature, humans look for patterns to help us understand and explain seemingly random and chaotic events and phenomena. Consider, for example, the old superstition that “deaths come in threes.” Faced with horrific and seemingly incomprehensible events like the slaughter of children in a suicide bombing at a pop co... |
10560 | ‘Bonding’ Hormone Might Help Some With Autism | Overall this 633-word story captures the essence of the study and places the test results into a reasonable context. This small study supports the hypothesis that oxytocin is involved in the social behaviors associated with high-functioning autism spectrum disorders, and it suggests a potential therapeutic role for oxy... | true | "Although this is a very preliminary study, some mention of costs should have been included, even if simply to note that the cost of potential treatments is unknown at the present time. The published study itself does not quantify benefits clearly , perhaps understandable given that it is a laboratory study, not a clin... | |
28408 | U.S. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh argued that disabled people could be forced to have elective surgeries, including abortions. | What's true: As a D.C. circuit judge, Kavanaugh overturned a lower court decision that enjoined Washington, D.C.'s disability services officials from authorizing elective medical procedures without first making an attempt to ascertain the wishes of the patient. What's false: Kavanaugh's ruling did not involve abortion. | mixture | Politics, brett kavanaugh, disabled, supreme court vacancy | In mid-August 2018, as confirmation hearings for President Donald Trump’s U.S. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh drew near, social media users shared a meme relating to a 2007 opinion Kavanaugh wrote as a D.C. circuit court judge: The meme presented an over-simplified representation of a complicated legal case and... |
2866 | FDA asks doctors to limit acetaminophen in combination drugs. | U.S. health regulators recommended on Tuesday that healthcare professionals stop prescribing combination drugs that contain more than 325 milligrams of acetaminophen per tablet, capsule, or other dosage unit, citing the risk of liver damage. | true | Health News | Limiting the quantity per dosage unit will reduce the risk of inadvertent overdose, which can lead to liver failure, liver transplant and death, the Food and Drug Administration said. It cited the fact that no available data showed that taking more than the recommended dose provided benefits that outweighed the added r... |
30750 | "The song ""Over the Rainbow"" was written about the Jewish experience during the Holocaust." | Although the song “Over the Rainbow” may be have come to be retrospectively viewed as a message of hope and resilience contemporaneous with the Holocaust period, no evidence supports that the song was written with the horrors to come in mind. Neither the outspoken Yip Harburg nor his son Ernie indicated that the song h... | false | Entertainment, holocaust, the wizard of oz | Which single movie has had the greatest influence, in both artistic and economic terms, on the film industry? Anyone born in the last half century or so might venture that the ongoing massive appeal of the Star Wars universe means that film should claim the crown. Many cinema buffs would argue that elements of Orson We... |
31660 | Several brands of baby wipes available in the U.S. were recalled in 2017 because they pose a risk of serious infection. | We contacted Nutek on 1 March 2017, and a company representative described the circulating baby wipes recall rumor as simply a scam. No recall notice was distributed by Nutek about several brands of baby wipes in January 2017, and the wording for the viral rumor appears to have been stolen from an October 2014 Food and... | false | Medical, baby wipes, health and diy tips, nutek | On 11 February 2017, a web site operating under the names “Health and DIY Tips” or “Daily Tips” falsely claimed that several brands of baby wipes were recalled in January 2017, and that the products posed a serious risk: Ten brands of baby wipes produced by the Pennsylvania-based Nutek Disposables, Inc., were recalled ... |
2538 | Medical tourism offers travel firms untapped growth. | A dentist’s office may not be everyone’s idea of a perfect holiday destination. | true | Health News | But a growing number of Europeans are travelling abroad for medical treatment to save money, or maybe to combine a visit to the doctor with some sightseeing, creating a fast-growing market that is still largely untapped by traditional tour operators. “It was simply cheaper for me to go to a dentist in Hungary,” said a ... |
33688 | The son of child care expert Dr. Benjamin Spock killed himself. | Did the son of baby specialist Dr. Spock kill himself? | false | Medical, ASP Article, Doctor Doctor | The Internet was at one juncture hopefully dubbed “the information superhighway,” but there are times (and far too many of them) that it might more accurately be referred to as “the misinformation superhighway,” given the apocrypha frequently spotted toddling along in the slow lane, its left indicator constantly signal... |
23310 | Alan Grayson Says Daniel Webster wants to make divorce illegal, even for abused wives. | Alan Grayson says opponent wants to make divorce illegal in stinging new ad | mixture | Marriage, Message Machine 2010, Religion, Women, Florida, Alan Grayson, | "U.S. Rep. Alan Grayson -- the man who described the Republican Party's health care plan as ""die quickly"" and who later equated the health care system to an American holocaust, who suggested former vice president Dick Cheney was a vampire who could turn into a bat and fly away at a moment's notice, and who said putti... |
35913 | NIAID Director Dr. Anthony Fauci criticized the Trump administration's decision to impose travel restrictions on China to stem the spread of COVID-19. | During an April 13 Coronavirus Task Force press briefing, Fauci said that he (and others) had recommended the China travel restriction to Trump, and at that same briefing, Trump averred that he and Fauci had been “on the same page” about dealing with the COVID-19 threat “from the beginning”: | false | Politics, 2020 election, COVID-19 | One of the staples of press conferences and rallies held by U.S. President Donald Trump in 2020 was his attempts to deflect criticism of his leadership during the COVID-19 pandemic by asserting that he imposed a ban on travel from China in February over the objections of nearly everyone else — particularly over the obj... |
5132 | Commission’s order supports ban on marijuana vaping products. | The state’s four-month ban on marijuana oil vaping products will remain in place after the state’s Cannabis Control Commission issued a quarantine order Tuesday. | true | Medical marijuana, General News, Marijuana, Charlie Baker, Vaping, Tobacco industry regulation | The order targets vape pens, vape cartridges, aerosol products, and inhalers that use oil-based vaping materials. It doesn’t apply to medical marijuana vaping devices designed for marijuana flower, which don’t use oil-based materials. The commission is also asking testing labs if they can check for vitamin E acetate. T... |
26771 | YouTube videos Says the Vatican confirmed that Pope Francis and two aides tested positive for coronavirus. | Pope Francis canceled a few engagements after he was seen coughing and sneezing during an Ash Wednesday mass. The Vatican has denied the stories, saying the pope has a “slight illness.” | false | Facebook Fact-checks, Coronavirus, YouTube videos, | "Pope Francis recently canceled some engagements after he was seen coughing and sneezing during an Ash Wednesday mass in Rome. The rare cancellations came as the coronavirus outbreak in Italy has infected more than 1,600 people, mostly in the northern region, and has people questioning whether the pope himself has cont... |
20758 | [N]early one in three primary care doctors are forced to limit the number of Medicare patients they see. | Congressman's claim about Medicare mostly rings true | true | Georgia, Health Care, Tom Price, | "Seniors, if you’re struggling to find a doctor that takes Medicare, U.S. Rep. Tom Price has diagnosed your problem. Doctors won’t take patients covered by the federal health insurance program for seniors because Medicare pays them less than what the care actually costs, Price said in a recent op-ed in the Boston Heral... |
9783 | Researchers report progress in cancer immunotherapy | The piece felt top-heavy with words of “progress…more effective…complete remission (in one patient)…hopes,” etc. Half-way through came this line: “Several independent researchers said the study results were promising. But they also noted that the trial involved only 11 patients and said the therapy was less effective t... | true | immunotherapy,melanoma | An early experiment of immunotherapy against melanoma may be too early to allow for a cost estimate. We’ll give the story the benefit of the doubt for reporting: “In six of the 11 patients in the trial, the melanoma stopped progressing for 12 to 19 weeks. Another patient was declared in remission because his cancer cea... |
3209 | Bolsonaro vs NGOs: Amazon town becomes ground zero for spat. | A sleepy Amazon town has become the flashpoint for the growing hostility between Brazil’s far-right President Jair Bolsonaro and environmental groups following the arrest of volunteer firefighters he has said set blazes in the rainforest. | true | Brazil, Caribbean, Leonardo Dicaprio, International News, General News, Forests, Latin America, Environment, Jair Bolsonaro, Non-governmental organizations | The episode prompted leaders of nine non-governmental organizations on Tuesday to denounce the persecution of activists, academics and scientists since the election last year of Bolsonaro, who has accused many of them of working in the Amazon on behalf of foreigners— including actor Leonardo DiCaprio. The groups have b... |
14052 | Under (Obamacare), you can’t reward a person for better behavior. You can’t have incentives to be healthier. | "Ryan said, ""Under (Obamacare), you can’t reward a person for better behavior. You can’t have incentives to be healthier."" Ryan is largely on point if the ""you"" refers only to insurance companies, but there’s nothing in the context to justify such a narrow interpretation. The claim was broad and implied a ban on in... | mixture | Health Care, Wisconsin, Paul Ryan, | "The health care overhaul known as ""Obamacare"" is as complex as it is far-reaching, so it’s hardly a surprise that arguments over what the law requires or prohibits are lingering years after it took effect. U.S. House Speaker Paul Ryan drifted into those murky waters in an April 27, 2016, town hall meeting, asserting... |
36924 | In 1981, a pediatrician saved the life of a 3.2-pound premature baby boy by working around the clock to beat the odds & stabilize him. In 2011, the pediatrician was pinned inside a burning vehicle after a car collision, but was saved by the premature baby, who had grown up to become a paramedic. | In 1981, a Pediatrician Saved a Premature Baby, in 2011, the Baby Saved Him from a Fiery Car Crash | true | Fact Checks, Viral Content | A meme showing a picture of a doctor and the paramedic who saved each others lives has long circulated on social media, in large part due to an April 2016 Unbelievable Facts Facebook post:That meme read at the bottom:In 1981, a pediatrician saved the life of a 3.2-pound premature baby boy by working around the clock to... |
5147 | Sanders accuses Biden of distorting ‘Medicare for All’ plan. | Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders accused former Vice President Joe Biden on Friday of distorting his proposal to provide single-payer, universal health care through “Medicare for All.” | true | Health, General News, Universal health care, Joe Biden, Carson City, Campaigns, Election 2020, Medicare, Politics, Bernie Sanders, Nevada | Campaigning in the early caucus state of Nevada, the 78-year-old Vermont senator said one of the things that disturbed him about Thursday’s debate was that he was hoping “to have a serious discussion about the health care crisis in America.” “I was not pleased that Vice President Biden distorted what Medicare for All i... |
24170 | House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said this week that the Democrats have to pass their terrible health care bill so that the American people can actually find out what's in it. | Texas GOP says Speaker Nancy Pelosi said people will know contents of terrible health-care plan after it passes | true | Health Care, Texas, Republican Party of Texas, | "The Republican Party of Texas marveled — not in a good way — at an admission of sorts by U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi about the long-stalled health care overhaul before Congress. According to an e-mail the GOP sent Friday, Pelosi said “the Democrats have to pass their terrible health care bill so that the American ... |
5694 | 8 vaping lung illness cases reported in Oregon. | State health officials say three additional cases of severe lung illnesses linked to vaping have been reported, bringing the total to eight. | true | Kate Brown, Health, Oregon, Vaping, Jay Inslee | The Oregon Health Authority said last week that two Oregon victims had died. That escalation prompted the state, lawmakers and Gov. Kate Brown to launch a barrage of anti-vaping messaging, including calls for action. The Oregonian/OregonLive reports the five victims Oregon officials reported last week all shopped at le... |
11213 | Researchers close in on a blood test for Alzheimer's disease | Those who communicate research results about devastating diseases such as Alzheimer’s should be prepared to present data to help readers assess the scope of the advances that are announced. This news release failed to deliver any such data. Worse, it catapulted beyond Alzheimer’s to say that the blood test being resear... | false | Alzheimer's disease,Association/Society news release | Our longstanding policy is that if it’s not too early to use such phrases as “nearing development of a blood test” or “closing in on a blood test” – as this story does – then it’s not to early to give at least a ballpark estimate of what this supposedly imminent test would cost. There is no discussion of cost in this s... |
7101 | UPMC partners to expand cancer care network in Ireland. | The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center is expanding its cancer care network in Ireland by entering a partnership on a new radiation therapy center in the country. | true | Radiation therapy, Cancer, Health, Pittsburgh, Ireland, University of Pittsburgh, Joint ventures | UPMC announced its collaboration with Bon Secours Health System on a joint venture to expand the Maryland-based nonprofit’s campus in Cork, Ireland. The six-story facility will begin offering radiation therapy for cancer patients beginning in 2019. It will be the second radiation center operated by UPMC in Ireland. UPM... |
29973 | "Anthony Hanes was mugged in a ""drug dealing neighborhood"" while doing an online challenge inspired by the movie ""Bird Box."" " | While this story may have been nothing more than a spoof, some people have truly been hurt while undertaking the “Bird Box Challenge. Needless to say, running around blindfolded isn’t the safest activity, and some of these challenge videos ended with people falling over or running into walls. | false | Junk News | The Netflix horror film Bird Box, starring Sandra Bullock, featured characters who must make a journey blindfolded in order to avoid seeing monsters who will otherwise drive them to suicide by taking the form of their worst fears. Not long after the movie’s December 2018, viewers began engaging in a “Bird Box challenge... |
34312 | One or more U.S. presidents (or members of their families) kept live alligators either in the White House or on its grounds. | Both visitors declared the alligators to be veritable mascots, and after a little persuasion they induced Mr. Harrison to go out to Bennings with them after each of the trio had rubbed fat pocket-books across the scaly backs of the saurians, the latter apparently enjoying the sensation and craving more. There were six ... | unproven | History, alligators, Benjamin Harrison, Herbert Hoover | President Donald Trump won the 2016 election by promising, in part, to “drain the swamp” in Washington, D.C., a vow that prompted GOP pundit Newt Gingrich to serve notice on fellow Washingtonians that “the alligators should be worried.” They were speaking metaphorically, of course, about Trump’s intention to rid the fe... |
15673 | Medicaid patients were 97 percent more likely to die than those with private insurance. | "Corcoran said, ""Medicaid patients were 97 percent more likely to die than those with private insurance."" Corcoran was citing a 2010 University of Virginia study that looked at Medicaid patients who underwent surgery, not all people in the program. Experts we spoke to -- including one of the study’s authors -- said i... | false | Health Care, Medicaid, State Budget, Florida, Richard Corcoran, | "Constituents demanding a solution to the Legislature’s budget impasse over Medicaid expansion have been emailing Rep. Richard Corcoran, who has been telling voters that the federal program is dangerous for its patients. Several PolitiFact Florida readers have sent in an email response from the Land O’ Lakes Republican... |
26262 | Facebook post Says Ron Johnson and 36 other senators “voted for federal agencies to have access to your internet history without obtaining a warrant.” | There was a vote against requiring warrants, but it was to maintain the status quo, not create a new access requirement. This authority is nothing new. It’s been allowed for 20 years in foreign intelligence investigations, and is also allowed in basic criminal investigations -- all without a warrant. The vote reference... | false | Homeland Security, Privacy Issues, Wisconsin, Facebook posts, | "A viral Facebook post says Americans missed a big moment in privacy rights. Some provisions of the 2001 Patriot Act — which greatly expanded government intelligence gathering in the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks — expired earlier this year amid GOP gridlock. The legislation has drawn criticism over the breadth of... |
8955 | New cancer vaccine shows early promise for patients with HER2-positive cancers | This release describes a phase 1 safety trial using a modified vaccine that researchers said showed a clinical benefit in some patients diagnosed with metastatic HER2 positive cancers. None of the 11 patients in the trial had previously been treated with standard therapies. The study was presented at a recent medical c... | mixture | American Association for Cancer Research,cancer vaccine,HER2 | The release noted that the vaccines were individually customized using each person’s immune cells. That technology does not sound cheap yet there was no discussion of cost. The release explains that six of 11 patients had a complete response, partial response, or stable disease using the experimental treatment. To the ... |
10027 | A nervy approach to weight loss | This was a story about an approach to augment weight loss involving manipulation of the vagus nerve that is currently under very limited investigation. While containing cost estimates for the approaches discussed, the story was rather vague about the risks and benefits of these means to weight loss. The story provided ... | mixture | The story included cost estimates for the procedures mentioned. The story mentioned a study by a doctor of 30 people, involving a device that interfered with vagal nerve transmission in which 80% of the people lost 30% of their excess weight in the first six months. As the story mentioned that this was done in 2005 and... | |
7391 | Chinese researcher claims first gene-edited babies. | A Chinese researcher claims that he helped make the world’s first genetically edited babies — twin girls born this month whose DNA he said he altered with a powerful new tool capable of rewriting the very blueprint of life. | true | AP Top News, Genetics, Hong Kong, Genetic Frontiers, Health, China, Science, Asia Pacific, United States, International News | If true, it would be a profound leap of science and ethics. A U.S. scientist said he took part in the work in China, but this kind of gene editing is banned in the United States because the DNA changes can pass to future generations and it risks harming other genes. Many mainstream scientists think it’s too unsafe to t... |
33795 | Glen Eagles hospital issued an urgent warning because seven women have died after sniffing perfume samples received in the mail. | “We sincerely hope that all members of the public who had read this email and our clarification will inform everyone around them that this is a hoax and urge everyone to ignore and delete such emails in the future,” she added. | false | Horrors, ISIS warnings, malaysia | A warning about women killed by poisoned perfume samples surfaced in e-mail in mid-October 2001, a month after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, and versions of it have periodically circulated since then in various online forms: Very Important ! URGENT News from Glen Eagles Hospital URGENT !!!!! Seven women have died after ... |
15522 | "Lincoln Chafee Says Ronald Reagan ""talked about"" converting the United States to the metric system." | "Chafee said, ""Reagan talked about"" converting to the metric system. The issue of metrication rose at the very beginning and at the very end of Reagan’s presidency. However, Chafee’s statement implies that Reagan had more than a passing interest in the issue, but that doesn’t seem to be the case. The metrication proc... | mixture | National, Government Regulation, Regulation, Lincoln Chafee, | "When former Rhode Island Gov. Lincoln Chafee announced he was joining the 2016 Democratic primary race, some people scratched their heads when he said switching to the metric system would be one of his goals as president. Of the world’s major countries, only the United States, Liberia and Myanmar don’t use metric unit... |
31104 | A group of former General Motors workers furtively produced 1957 Chevrolet automobiles on their own for ten years. | In honor of the 50th anniversary of the classic automobile’s introduction, CARS Inc. announced in 2006 that they would begin offering newly-[re]built (from original cowls) 1957 Chevrolet convertibles. | false | Automobiles, chevrolet, Dream Machines, general motors | Many a product has gone through the life cycle of development, marketing, and then eventual obsolescence when its manufacturer determined it no longer sold well enough to justify continued production or decided to focus on offering a newer and better version. Upon occasion, however, a discontinued product has retained ... |
2948 | California brain-dead girl nears deadline for ventilator. | Relatives of a 13-year-old California girl declared brain dead after complications from a tonsillectomy pressed an 11th-hour effort on Monday to get her moved to an extended-care facility as a deadline neared for taking her off a breathing machine. | true | Health News | Doctors at Children’s Hospital in Oakland have said they intend to disconnect Jahi McMath on Monday evening from a ventilator that has been keeping her heart and lungs going since she lost all brain function more than two weeks ago. An Alameda County Superior Court judge issued a restraining order last week barring the... |
15404 | We have the highest rate of childhood poverty of any major country on Earth. | "Sanders said, ""We have the highest rate of childhood poverty of any major country on Earth."" His office later clarified that ""major country"" referred to those nations that were members of the OECD. The 2012 UNICEF report he pointed to agrees with him, but two studies released since then, including another one from... | false | National, Poverty, Bernie Sanders, | "One plank of Bernie Sanders’ increasingly popular presidential platform is his focus on decreasing poverty and income inequality in America. In a recent appearance on CNN, he decried the influence Wall Street has had on economic policy, and the wealth disparities and class differences that have arisen in the United St... |
37584 | A full 38 percent of Americans won't drink Corona beer under any circumstances in February 2020 because they fear coronavirus. | Would 38 Percent of Americans Not Buy Corona Beer over Coronavirus Fears? | mixture | Disinformation, Fact Checks | "On February 28 2020, CNN published a tweet reporting that a full 38 percent of Americans — more than a third — refused to drink Corona beer under any circumstances, due to fears of coronavirus:38% of Americans wouldn't buy Corona beer ""under any circumstances"" because of the coronavirus, according to a recent survey... |
34716 | Former New York Mets outfielder Kevin Mitchell killed his girlfriend's cat by cutting off its head with a knife. | With nothing more to go by, it’s a toss-up for us to determine whether this is a true story or not. By Gooden’s account there were a couple of witnesses to the alleged incident (Gooden’s friend, Meade Chassky, and Mitchell’s unnamed girlfriend), but we haven’t found any evidence that either of them has ever discussed t... | unproven | Sports, baseball | The basic approach to an “Is this true?” query about a particular event is to find someone who witnessed or participated in the incident and can therefore provide a first-hand account of the facts. This approach is not always straightforward, however, because human beings, and their memories, are fallible. People forge... |
10770 | How to soothe baby’s colic? Pour a cup of tea | While HealthDay broke down the evidence in a clear, concise way for readers with a headline that read “No Good Evidence That Folk Remedies Ease Colic,” this story took the unsupported view that parents should start letting their colicky kids sip herbal tea. Unlike the HealthDay story, the MSNBC site’s “Today Moms” feat... | false | MSNBC | None of the purported benefits of herbal tea (or of any of the other approaches) are quantified, giving readers nothing on which to base their decisions. No discussion of potential harms nor of overall safety record of the approaches mentioned. We do appreciate, though, that the story said, “The study didn’t include sp... |
26311 | Republican National Committee Says Joe Biden said voting by mail is a way to “fundamentally change this country,” contradicting past statements by Barack Obama and Debbie Wasserman Schultz. | The clip of Biden has nothing to do with voting by mail. The video includes short clips of Barack Obama and Debbie Wasserman Schultz sounding critical of voting by mail, but they were not condemning voting by mail overall. Both Obama and Wasserman Schultz were speaking about a proposal, which ultimately never went forw... | false | Corrections and Updates, Elections, Florida, Republican National Committee, | "A new video launched by the Republican National Committee suggests Democrats are pushing a ""radical plan to change our elections"" through widespread mail-in voting. ""This is a radical change from their past,"" the video says. As evidence, it flashes to clips of comments by President Barack Obama, U.S. Rep. Debbie W... |
26053 | Hays County in Central Texas has seen an “incredible 845% increase in (COVID-19) cases since June 7.” | Doggett's claim left out an important detail: the statistic he highlighted is about the growth in the 14-day average of new COVID-19 cases. The increase in the 7-day average and the actual count of new cases is significantly higher. | true | Texas, Coronavirus, Lloyd Doggett, | "Coronavirus infections are on the rise in Texas, with some areas experiencing a more dramatic increase than others. In Central Texas, Austin and its surrounding counties have reported an increase in the number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 and hospitalizations. Hays County, which sits to the south of Austin, has been... |
512 | China drafts new rules to control rural plastic pollution. | China will tighten regulations on the use of plastic film by farmers to boost crop yields, which has become a major source of soil contamination throughout northern and western regions, according to a draft policy document published on Friday. | true | Environment | The new rules, which have been opened to the public for consultation, will involve the establishment of a comprehensive “management system” covering the production, sale, utilization and recycling of thin plastic film in the countryside. Chinese farmers, mostly in the arid north and west, cover fields with vast amounts... |
39639 | A forwarded email tells the story of a young Palestinian burn patient who was caught entering Israel wearing a suicide belt with plans to blow up the doctors who saved her life. | Palestinian Burn Patient Turned Suicide Bomber. | true | Medical, Miscellaneous | Dr. Arieh Eldad is a medical doctor specializing in plastic surgery in Israel, and he told of the young burn patient turned suicide bomber in a 2008 interview with the New English Review. Interviewer Jerry Gordon prompted Dr. Eldad to recount a story of the Palestinian burn patient turned suicide bomber after receiving... |
5568 | Student at Connecticut university diagnosed with meningitis. | A Connecticut university is taking precautions after a student came down with a confirmed case of bacterial meningitis. | true | Health, Connecticut, New Britain, Meningitis | Central Connecticut State University President Zulma Toro in a message to the campus community said the state Department of Public Health on Monday confirmed meningitis and is now working to determine the subtype. The Health Department said it was an isolated case and not an outbreak. The infection is spread by close, ... |
3846 | Feds: Pharmacy ignored red flags when filling prescriptions. | Federal prosecutors say they’ve suspended a West Virginia pharmacy’s registration for improperly dispensing prescription drugs. | true | Health, West Virginia, General News, Prescription drugs | U.S. Attorney Mike Stuart announced the suspension against Oak Hill Hometown Pharmacy on Thursday. Stuart says the pharmacy filled about 2,000 prescriptions for a widely-abused drug called Subutex over a three-year period despite red flags that the pills were being misused. He says more than half of the prescriptions c... |
24427 | In the health care bill, we're now offering insurance for dogs. | Glenn Beck claims health care bill includes insurance for dogs | false | National, Health Care, Pundits, Glenn Beck, | "We're months into this health care debate and frankly a lot of the claims we've been fact-checking from opponents and proponents alike have gotten a little stale. So we were thrilled to hear a new one on the Glenn Beck radio program on Nov. 12, 2009: ""Do you know in the health care bill, we're now offering insurance ... |
31234 | A photograph shows Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Massachusetts) performing a pagan ritual in the nude. | Warren had her first child at age 22, and hair requires months, if not years, to grow to the length it appears in this image. The image used in this meme had nothing to do with Warren, and the meme itself is easily debunked by the barest of Google searches. | false | Junk News, elizabeth warren, pagan, paganism | In June 2017, a blurry black and white image showing a group of nude people dancing around a circle appeared with text claiming that it shows Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Massachusetts) performing a pagan ritual: Photo of Elizabeth Warren at a nude pagan ritual. A roomate of Elizabeth Warren’s from college released this p... |
5404 | Person with measles visited popular LA tourist spots. | Los Angeles County health authorities say one of the most recent local cases of measles involved a person who visited popular tourism locations including The Grove shopping center, The Original Farmers Market and La Brea Tar Pits. | true | Los Angeles, Health, Measles, Original, Travel, Public health | People who were at those locations and nearby areas on April 27 may be at risk of developing the highly contagious disease for up to 21 days. Authorities say there is no current risk of exposure at those locations. Health officials have been dealing with a small outbreak of measles as well as cases among travelers pass... |
8939 | Johns Hopkins team identifies promising diagnostic tool for Alzheimer's disease | The release focuses on two papers that discuss early research into developing a technique for identifying people who will develop neurodegenerative diseases including Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia. The papers were published in the December issue of the Journal of Nuclear Medicine. Specifically, the papers eva... | mixture | Alzheimer's disease | Cost isn’t discussed. The benefit here would be the accurate diagnosis of tau protein tangles in patients with Alzheimer’s disease. There is no quantification of findings in this regard. Instead, the release uses general language, such as the statement that one of the studies “generated good and reproducible results.” ... |
9062 | Cinnamon turns up the heat on fat cells | Cinnamon, or more specifically cinnamaldehyde, the essential oil that gives cinnamon its flavor, has been the focus of mouse studies on reversing obesity. This news release reports on a study that uses human stem-cell-derived fat cells to test if and how cinnamaldehyde activates fat metabolism in these fat cells. The n... | mixture | cinnamon,University of Michigan,weight loss | There are no costs discussed in this news release. However, this study is extremely preliminary, and it is not known how cinnamaldehyde would be sourced if this were to become a drug. Cinnamon is a common spice available on any grocery shelf, is fairly inexpensive and is made from tree bark. It can also be chemically s... |
31770 | President Donald Trump posited that Canadian women were the second biggest threat to America following ISIS. | … all news articles contained within burrardstrettjournal.com are works of fiction and constitute fake news. Any truth or actual facts contained in said stories or posts are purely incidental or coincidental and not intended to be, or be construed as, facts. | false | Junk News, burrard street journal, canadian women, donald trump | Following reports on 21 January 2017 that Canadian women were prohibited from entering the United States to join the Women’s March on Washington, D.C., a web site called BurrardStreetJournal.com reported that U.S. President Donald Trump called them a threat to the American way of life comparable to the Islamic State: ... |
3200 | Officials: Norovirus contributed to restaurant patron death. | Norovirus was a contributing cause of the death of a person who had attended a function at a New Hampshire restaurant where a group of guests became sick, health officials said Tuesday. | true | Health, New Hampshire, Manchester | Eighteen people who became ill attended the private function Nov. 24 at the Puritan Backroom conference center in Manchester, the state Department of Health and Human Services said. The person who later died was an adult from Hillsborough County. No other details were issued about the person, in accordance with federal... |
7543 | As virus makes goodbyes hard, fears of many more rise in US. | The coronavirus outbreak could kill 100,000 to 200,000 Americans, the U.S. government’s top infectious-disease expert warned on Sunday as family members described wrenching farewells through hospital windows with dying loved ones. | true | AP Top News, Health, Anthony Fauci, Middle East, Latin America, Africa, New York, Infectious diseases, Travel, Donald Trump, Asia Pacific, Virus Outbreak, Europe, General News, International News | Faced with that grim projection and the possibility even more could die in the U.S. without measures to keep people away from one another, President Donald Trump extended federal guidelines recommending people stay home for another 30 days until the end of April to prevent the spread of the virus. Trump’s extension of ... |
30312 | "A May 2018 study found that 99.9 percent of politicians throughout the United States are ""actual psychopaths." | It’s possible that the prevalence of personality traits consistent with psychopathy might be as high in the world of politics, but despite the claims made by this article, any reliable figures are lacking. | false | Politics, neon nettle | In June 2018, the disreputable Neon Nettle web site claimed that a new study had come to some interesting conclusions about America’s political class: A new study published by the Social Science Research Network has revealed that 99.9% of all politicians in the USA are actual psychopaths … The new analysis ranked 48 co... |
17705 | "Mr. Conservative Says the Obama administration is handing out a pamphlet titled, ""What To Do When The Veteran In Your Classroom Attempts A Mass Shooting" | "The website Mr. Conservative posted an article that claimed the Obama administration was handing out a pamphlet titled, ""What To Do When The Veteran In Your Classroom Attempts A Mass Shooting."" The story originated on a satire site and was in no way real -- a truth that could have been easily discovered through a fe... | false | National, Corrections and Updates, Education, Military, Veterans, Guns, Mr. Conservative, | "On Nov. 12, 2013, a blog called Mr. Conservative posted an alarming headline -- especially so given that it was just one day after the Veterans’ Day holiday. The story, which was forwarded to us by a reader, was headlined: ""Obama Admin. Hands Out Pamphlet: 'What To Do When The Veteran In Your Classroom Attempts A Mas... |
9144 | Stem cells may significantly improve tendon healing by regulating inflammation | A basic study of the ability of stem cells to “regulate” inflammation in tendons seems promising enough to invite further research into the role stem cells might play in this important piece of body scaffolding. But examining stem cell activity in petri dishes and in rats does not get us within shouting distance of a t... | false | Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology,stem cells | This is basic research, so no one is in a position to talk about specific costs. But when a release broaches therapy as a likely goal, as is the case, then it indeed needs to speak to cost. Such treatments run into the thousands of dollars, with iffy participation by insurance companies. The release briefly notes two f... |
3159 | California considers requiring zero emission truck sales. | The country’s most populous state could become the first to require a portion of new truck sales be electric or “zero emission” vehicles as California grapples with how to clean up its worst-in-the nation air quality. | true | Health, General News, California, Science, U.S. News, Air quality, Pollution | Home to the two largest ports in the country in Los Angeles and Long Beach, California has roughly 1.5 million medium and heavy duty trucks on the road that spew harmful pollutants as they haul freight to warehouses. The state’s transportation sector accounts for 41% of all greenhouse gas emissions, a cause of climate ... |
37870 | An unidentified man was seen shopping at a Vons supermarket in Santee, California, while wearing a Ku Klux Klan hood. | Was a Man in California Spotted Shopping While Wearing a Ku Klux Klan Hood? | true | Fact Checks, Viral Content | Social media users and officials in a small southern California city condemned photographs spreading online showing an unidentified man shopping in public while wearing a Ku Klux Klan hood as a “face mask” during the first weeks of the COVID-19 pandemic.The man was first spotted and photographed at a Vons supermarket i... |
7760 | Up to 84,000 Americans hospitalized with flu in past three months: CDC. | An estimated 69,000 to 84,000 Americans were hospitalized due to the flu in the last three months, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said on Friday. | true | Health News | The nation saw one of the worst flu outbreaks in nearly a decade during the 2017-2018 season, with more than 900,000 cases of hospitalizations and over 80,000 deaths, the CDC estimates here Between Oct. 1, 2018 and Jan. 5, 2019, about 6 million to 7 million people were reported to have contracted the flu, according to... |
9082 | Black tea may help with weight loss, too | This news release was based on a very preliminary four-week study of mice. But readers of the misleading headline — “Black tea may help with weight loss, too” — will assume that the results apply to humans. The release attempts to quickly clarify the erroneous impression left by the headline, which is good. But then it... | false | animal research,black tea,weight loss | There is no discussion of the costs of black, decaffeinated tea. While one might argue that the cost of tea is relatively well known, remember that this was an animal study. We don’t know how much a person would have to drink in order to achieve the equivalent dosage for humans. The release could have clarified this po... |
6765 | Admissions ban on Florida nursing home tied to Irma deaths. | Florida health officials will not allow new patients to be admitted to an assisted living facility associated with a nursing home where a dozen residents died after the facility lost power in a hurricane. | true | Health, Assisted living, Florida, Hurricanes | The Agency for Health Care Administration banned Floridian Gardens Assisted Living Facility from taking new patients Friday, citing “an immediate serious danger to the public health, safety or welfare” at the Miami facility. The Miami Herald reports a survey uncovered at least two deaths and multiple falls due to “defi... |
7927 | World's governments draft manufacturers for virus treatment arsenal. | From Washington to London, Beijing to Rome, governments are drafting automakers and aerospace manufacturers to ramp up production of ventilators and other medical equipment to bolster what most experts say is an inadequate arsenal of coronavirus treatment tools. | true | Health News | Authorities are hoping large-scale manufacturers can use their low-cost supply chains and digital design expertise, including 3D printing, and repurpose some factories in order to make up the expected shortfall in vital medical hardware. Some of Britain’s biggest aerospace and car companies have formed three teams to p... |
14133 | Amendment 2 will put almost 2,000 pot shops in Florida ... more pot shops than Walmart and Walgreens combined. | "Vote No On 2 said, ""Amendment 2 will put almost 2,000 pot shops in Florida ... more pot shops than Walmart and Walgreens combined."" The state health department did project 1,993 medical marijuana dispensaries would be needed to serve potential patients, based on data from Colorado compared with Florida. That is more... | mixture | Florida Amendments, Florida, Marijuana, Vote No On 2, | "Opponents of Florida’s medical marijuana amendment have fired up a new round of attacks, claiming there will be a dispensary on practically every corner if voters approve the initiative. In a three-minute ad released May 16, 2016, the group Vote No On 2 calls Amendment 2 ""a scam to legalize pot."" Should the measure ... |
5622 | US to waive environmental reviews for San Diego border wall. | The Trump administration on Friday waived environmental reviews to replace a 14-mile (22.5 kilometer) stretch of border barrier in San Diego, shielding itself from potentially crippling delays. | true | San Diego, North America, Environment, National security, Environmental policy, U.S. News, Donald Trump | The Department of Homeland Security said it would issue the sixth waiver of Donald Trump’s presidency under a 2005 law that empowers the secretary to waive reviews required under environmental laws if the border barrier is deemed to be in national security interests. Those laws include the National Environmental Policy... |
24510 | "AARP is ""the largest reseller of insurance in the country"" and ""has a vested interest in seeing that the market for reselling supplemental insurance expands." | AARP profits from insurance sales; GOP calls it a health reform conflict | mixture | National, Health Care, Legal Issues, Medicare, Ginny Brown-Waite, | "AARP, the nonprofit advocacy group for seniors, has often said it does not endorse a particular plan for health care reform. But the group has been a high-profile supporter of overall reform and hosted a town hall event with President Barack Obama in July. That advocacy has bothered some Republicans. Rep. Ginny Brown-... |
8896 | Baxter recalls remaining heparin vial products. | Baxter International Inc said on Thursday it was voluntarily recalling all remaining lots of its heparin injection and flush products now that U.S. regulators have concluded there is sufficient capacity from other suppliers. | true | Health News | The company initially recalled nine lots of multi-dose vials of the blood thinner in mid-January after a higher than usual number of reports of adverse patient reactions. Baxter suspended production of multi-dose vials of the drug earlier this month while officials search for the cause of four deaths and hundreds o... |
6041 | Iowa reports 622 impaired water segments, a 2% increase. | Iowa will report water impairments on 622 river, lake and wetland segments to the Environmental Protection Agency as part of its biennial summary of water quality, the Iowa Department of Natural Resources said Thursday. | true | Environment, Iowa, General News, Lakes, Water quality, Des Moines | That’s a 2% increase over the 608 reported in the 2016 report. The federal Clean Water Act requires states to compile a report every two years. The 622 water body segments on this year’s list had 831 impairments up from 818 in the previous report, DNR officials said. An impairment means a segment of a water body doesn’... |
10076 | Hormone Replacement for Men? Perhaps | "We wish there were more stories like this one which take a broad view of the evidence on a given treatment and aren’t simply reactions to a press release about a new study. This column on testosterone therapy rightly emphasizes the limited and conflicting data to support this treatment and the uncertain potential for ... | true | "Given the controversies about the benefit of testosterone replacement treatment in andropausal men, the costs of care are an important consideration. Testosterone replacement therapies can range from $10 to $300 a month not including testing and physician visits. This story notes that testosterone has inconsistent eff... | |
31822 | An animated image shows Meryl Streep mocking a disabled person on a late night talk show. | In short, the animated image supposedly showing Meryl Streep mocking a disabled person actually captures a portion Streep’s appearance on The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien in which she told (and partially acted out) a story about being scared by a lion on the set of Out of Africa. | false | Fauxtography, disabled, donald trump, golden globes | Several rumors aimed at discrediting Meryl Streep were circulated in January 2017 shortly after the actress delivered a controversial speech at the Golden Globes in which she criticized President-elect Donald Trump for (among other things) reportedly mocking a disabled reporter. For example, a video was circulated purp... |
4520 | Army Corps approves $778M plan to block Asian carp advance. | The head of the Army Corps of Engineers has sent Congress a $778 million plan to fortify an Illinois waterway with noisemakers, electric cables and other devices in the hope that they will prevent Asian carp from reaching the Great Lakes, where the aggressive invaders could leave other fish with too little to eat. | true | Michigan, Dams, Lakes, Environment, Lake Michigan, Science, Illinois, Joliet, North America, Canada, Fish, Traverse City | Lt. Gen. Todd Semonite on Thursday approved the plan to install defenses at the Brandon Road Lock and Dam near Joliet, Illinois, about 40 miles from Lake Michigan. The site is a crucial choke point in an aquatic pathway between the lake and the carp-infested Illinois River. The plan represents a compromise between prop... |
11587 | ‘Super X-rays’ show promise for finding heart disease but produce high radiation dose | "The concept of cardiac CT sounds like a great one: to be able to get high resolution images of the coronary arteries in a non-invasive way. One potential use of the scans would be to identify those without blockages to save them from getting the more invasive angiography procedure. Unfortunately, cardiac CT scans are ... | true | "The story provides the cost of the CT scan as well as angiography. However, the story should have discussed insurance coverage for the scans. The story describes the percentage of patients with blockages that were identified with either the CT scan or the angiogram. The story should have also described the probability... | |
17901 | "Mental health provisions related to mass shootings ""got over 90 votes in the Senate." | "Ayotte said that mental health provisions related to mass shootings ""got over 90 votes in the Senate."" While an early version of the bill never made it out of committee, the Senate did eventually vote, 95-2, for a mental-health amendment to a gun control bill. The full bill lacked enough votes to pass and was pulled... | true | New Hampshire, Health Care, Guns, Kelly Ayotte, | "U.S. Sen. Kelly Ayotte, a Republican, is again backing programs aimed at identifying mentally ill people who pose a risk for mass killings. Ayotte, saying she has strong bipartisan support, has co-sponsored a bill geared toward education, awareness and intervention relating to mental illness since the mass shootings i... |
5310 | At Oscar nominees luncheon, a pitch for brevity. | Winners at this year’s Oscars will need to be quick, both in their walks to the stage and their acceptance speeches. | true | Academy Awards, Steven Soderbergh, Entertainment, Movies, North America, Donna Gigliotti, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Glenn Weiss | Producers told nominees for the 91st annual Academy Awards that they will have 90 seconds from the time their name is called until when their speech will need to be a concluded. The sprint is needed to keep the Feb. 24 ceremony to three hours, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences President John Bailey told this ... |
10918 | Moderate Drinking May Cut Disease Risk for Women | It missed several opportunities to help readers interpret these findings critically. Most of the deficiencies could probably have been remedied by talking to an independent expert or two. The Washington Post did slightly better in its competing blog post about the same study. This new analysis of the ongoing, prospecti... | false | WebMD,women's health | The cost of alcohol is not in question. We expect that a story will attempt to provide us with some measure of the size of an association beyond just the relative risks, which can often give an inflated sense of the effects. That’s what happens in this story when it says that women who drank lightly almost every day “w... |
145 | CVS drug coverage plan based on outside pricing review is off to a slow start. | A CVS Health Corp (CVS.N) health plan that uses an outside drug pricing group to help it decide whether to cover certain new medicines has gained little traction with customers, according to its top medical executive, and has drawn fierce criticism from patient advocacy groups. | true | Health News | The company has held back on marketing the pharmacy benefit plan while it talks to these groups, CVS said. The plan, launched a year ago, is based on analyses by the Institute for Clinical and Economic Review (ICER), a Boston-based group that assesses effectiveness of drugs to determine appropriate prices. Using ICER’s... |
3685 | Judge halts arbitration in Chemours-DuPont dispute. | A Delaware judge has temporarily halted arbitration between the DuPont Co. and Chemours as he weighs DuPont’s request to dismiss a lawsuit claiming that it massively downplayed the cost environmental liabilities imposed on Chemours. | true | Environment, Lawsuits, U.S. News, Delaware, Dover | The case centers on theliabilities Chemours was saddled with after DuPont spun off its former performance chemicals unit in 2015. The judge’s granted Chemours’ request to pause the arbitration on Thursday, one day after he heard arguments on DuPont’s dismissal motion. Chemours sued DuPont earlier this year, alleging th... |
26946 | “In sanctuary cities, local officials order police to release dangerous criminal aliens to prey upon the public instead of handing them over to ICE to be safely removed.” | Sanctuary policies don’t mean that undocumented criminals get to walk free of charges, or that local officials order police to release them as standard operating procedure. Sanctuary policies protect noncitizens from being turned over to ICE after they’ve gone through the justice system. But many sanctuary policies hav... | false | Immigration, Donald Trump, | "During the 2020 State of the Union address, President Donald Trump slammed ""sanctuary cities"" for their limited cooperation with Immigration and Customs Enforcement. ""In sanctuary cities, local officials order police to release dangerous criminal aliens to prey upon the public instead of handing them over to ICE to... |
18408 | Jim Marston Says Texas leads the nation in fatal industrial accidents. | "Marston said that in Texas, ""we lead the nation in fatal industrial accidents."" Among the states, Texas ranked No. 1 in 2011 in the number of workplace deaths in four federal categories Marston tabbed as ""industrial accident"" deaths. Yet these results drew on raw counts of deaths, unadjusted for variations in stat... | mixture | Labor, Texas, Jim Marston, | "Five days after the fertilizer plant explosion that killed 14 in West, talk turned to safety regulation at the Texas Tribune’s morning interview series. Jim Marston, founding director of the Texas office of the Environmental Defense Fund, opined from the Tribune stage on April 22, 2013, that state regulation should ha... |
26583 | Speaking of his restriction on travel from China, “I had (Joe) Biden calling me xenophobic. … He called me a racist, because of the fact that he felt it was a racist thing to stop people from China coming in.” | Biden has not directly said that the restrictions were xenophobic. Around the time the Trump administration announced the travel restriction, Biden said that Trump had a “record of hysteria, xenophobia, and fear-mongering.” Biden used the phrase “xenophobic” in reply to a Trump tweet about limiting entry to travele... | false | China, Health Care, Public Health, Coronavirus, Donald Trump, | "Amid criticism of his administration’s response to the coronavirus pandemic, President Donald Trump routinely flags one action as efficient and bold: restricting travel from China into the United States. Trump has said he instituted a travel ban against everyone’s wishes and that ""nobody,"" not even doctors, wanted h... |
25967 | “To children and the vast majority of young and middle-aged adults and the vast majority of teachers, (the coronavirus) poses virtually zero threat. | Carlson’s language paints a black-and-white picture for children and teachers between death and full recovery. Other outcomes — including hospitalization — have occurred and are also harmful. There’s a lot we don’t know about long-term health conditions associated with COVID-19. The risk of severe illness and death due... | false | Children, Education, Public Health, Pundits, PunditFact, Coronavirus, Tucker Carlson, | "Fox News host Tucker Carlson downplayed the risk of the coronavirus recently, arguing on his TV show that schools should reopen because, he said, the virus ""poses virtually zero threat"" to children and most working adults. ""For children, the risks of staying locked at home are high,"" Carlson said in the July 7 seg... |
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