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3466 | Quake from Mount Etna volcano jolts Sicily, sparks panic. | An earthquake triggered by Mount Etna’s eruption jolted eastern Sicily before dawn Wednesday, injuring at least 10 people, damaging churches and houses on the volcano’s slopes and prompting panicked villagers to flee their homes. | true | Volcanic eruptions, Italy, International News, Sicily, Travel, AP Top News, Science, Travel, Europe, Earthquakes | Italy’s Civil Protection officials said the quake, which struck at 3:19 a.m., was part of a swarm of some 1,000 tremors, most of them barely perceptible, linked to Etna’s volcanic eruption this week. Italy’s national seismology institute said the quake had a magnitude of 4.8 on the open-ended Richter scale and 4.9 on t... |
4253 | Vancouver woman sharing signs of ovarian cancer with others. | Teri Giangreco didn’t know the signs of ovarian cancer until she was sitting in her new gynecologic oncologist’s office discussing her stage 3 ovarian cancer diagnosis. | true | Health, Vancouver, Cancer, Ovarian cancer | A poster on the wall listed the four warning signs: bloating, feeling of fullness, pelvic pain and frequent need to urinate. “We can justify them to be anything,” Giangreco said. That’s what she had done. Giangreco, 70, started noticing some mild stomach issues in November — an upset stomach one day, constipation anoth... |
21306 | Senate Bill 5 makes it harder for nurses to give the patients the quality care they need. | We Are Ohio claims SB 5 would make it harder for nurses to care for patients | false | Ohio, Jobs, Labor, Unions, We Are Ohio, | "We Are Ohio, the main group trying to repeal Ohio Senate Bill 5, recently rolled out a TV commercial warning voters that upholding the law would compromise the health care nurses can provide. The message is similar to a claim in a previous ad that SB 5 would make it illegal to negotiate for enough firefighters to do t... |
24083 | "Karen Sage Says that under a new program jail ""time for non-violent, mentally ill offenders has been reduced by 50 percent." | Karen Sage says jail time has been cut 50 percent for offenders in program focused on mental health | true | Crime, Texas, Karen Sage, | Karen Sage of Austin, facing a Tuesday runoff with Mindy Montford of Austin for the Democratic nod for a judgeship, touts her experience as a prosecutor overseeing a new unit focused on defendants with mental illness. With no Republican opponent in November, the winner of the runoff will likely be a shoo-in for Travis ... |
32337 | Neil deGrasse Tyson addressed gender inequality on Twitter by tearing apart a joke about women in science. | A Missouri Supreme Court ruling on talc lawsuits could reduce the liability and number of large trials Johnson & Johnson faces over allegations its talc products, including baby powder, cause cancer. | false | Science, feminism, neil degrasse tyson, science porn | The ruling will likely offer some respite to the healthcare conglomerate as it deals with growing pressure over the safety of its talc products, some defense lawyers said. The company revealed in its annual report on Wednesday that it had received subpoenas from the U.S. Justice Department and the Securities and Exchan... |
1352 | Britain faces new legal challenge over air quality improvement plan. | New legal proceedings have been launched against the British government by environmental law firm ClientEarth over what it says is a failure to tackle air pollution, the firm said on Tuesday. | true | Environment | ClientEarth has taken action against the government twice before, in 2015 and 2016. The Supreme Court ordered the government to produce a new air quality plan in 2015. In 2016 the High Court ordered a new plan which came out earlier this year. However, ClientEarth says that the plan stills fall short of what is needed ... |
10233 | How To Beat Sleep Apnea? Cut It Out (Surgically) | Strong points: The independent expert’s perspective: “I wouldn’t send a middle-age obese man for surgery as their first option. I would say let’s lose the weight; lets use CPAP and see a nutritionist; lets avoid the alcohol and let’s see how you do.” The apnea can probably be taken care of with these non-invasive tech... | mixture | NPR | No mention of costs – not on the robotic surgery, not on CPAP. Mixed bag but we’ll give the story the benefit of the doubt. It said the CPAP “works for about half who try it” – but we wish it had provided a source for that info. It said surgery (apparently referring to non-robotic surgery) is effective only 20-30% of t... |
1305 | Timeline: Britain's National Health Service turns 70. | Britain marks the 70th anniversary of the founding of the National Health Service on Thursday, a moment of pride and concern for a country that has nurtured its growth into the largest publicly funded healthcare service in the world. | true | Health News | Questions about whether the NHS can survive in its present form are the subject of a long-running British debate, given an aging population and increased costs due to advances in medicine and surgery. Following is a timeline of key events spanning its history. Health minister Aneurin Bevan launches the tax-funded NHS t... |
30932 | "Image depicts ""attitude adjustment"" and ""smile therapy"" forced upon American housewives in the 1930s institutionalized for ""not taking care of themselves"" and acting ""depressed." | To that we would simply add that exaggerating the wrongheadedness of our forebears can be taken to such extremes (case in point above) that it is we who end up looking ludicrous when we fall for it. | false | Fauxtography, creepy photographs, institutionalizing women, not actually an interesting fact | On 5 October 2017, a Facebook page called “Pictures in History” shared a photograph supposedly depicting an American housewife in the 1930s who was committed to a psychiatric facility for the offense of failing to take “proper care of her husband”: The caption, previously published by a Tumblr user in 2014, claimed th... |
10286 | Blood thinners on 'as needed' basis is safe and effective for lowering stroke risk as compared to long-term use | This news release reports on a small observational study presented at a medical conference on the novel use of “as-needed” anticoagulants and routine pulse monitoring by patients with atrial fibrillation (AF). While the release as a whole doesn’t exaggerate the study’s impact (it was a small observational study, of sho... | mixture | Academic medical center news release,cardiovascular disease | Since we don’t know which drugs were used in the study we don’t really have an idea what the costs, or costs savings would have been. Obviously if patients start taking their novel anticoagulants on an ‘as needed’ basis then a lot of money could be saved. These drugs, it should be noted, are typically a lot more expens... |
4149 | Sharks drawn to warm waters by Israeli coastal power plant. | A giant power plant with billowing smoke may not look like the most natural habitat for sea life. But the hot water gushing from an industrial plant in Israel’s northern city of Hadera has drawn schools of sharks that are increasingly endangered by overfishing in the Mediterranean Sea. Now the hotspot is also drawing t... | true | Sharks, Environment, Israel, International News, Fish, Mediterranean Sea, Lifestyle, Science, Middle East, Overfishing | Sandbar and dusky sharks have been sighted around the power plant for decades, but scientists only started collecting data two years ago. Although they are still trying to count the smatterings of sharks nearby, researcher Aviad Scheinin said the hundreds flocking exclusively to the Hadera power plant every winter qual... |
10084 | New asthma inhaler approved for children | This story gave details about an asthma medication that has now received FDA approval for use in a new population, children aged 4-11 years of age. But the story didn’t: give the cost of the drug provide any information about how much better the drug worked than current treatments (in fact, it didn’t quantify the ben... | mixture | The story did not provide a cost estimate for this use of this medication. Though mentioning that this medication was significantly better than placebo, the story did not provide any details about how much better the treatment was. While the story provided a list of the harms that have been associated with the use of t... | |
3712 | Opioid settlement talks broaden ahead of 1st federal trial. | Efforts to settle thousands of lawsuits related to the nation’s opioid epidemic intensified Wednesday ahead of the scheduled start of arguments in the first federal trial over the crisis. | true | AP Top News, Opioids, Trials, Epidemics, Business, Lawsuits, Cleveland, General News, Health, U.S. News | A person with knowledge of the negotiations told The Associated Press that three major drug distributors plus two manufacturers were working on the outlines of a settlement. It would include $22 billion in cash over time plus up to $15 billion worth of overdose antidotes and treatment drugs, with distribution of those ... |
8063 | Turkey struggles to ramp up tests as outbreak reaches critical phase. | A week after sending half a million coronavirus test kits to the United States, Turkey is struggling to ramp up its own testing for the disease as doctors warn the country has reached a crossroads in containing the fast-growing outbreak. | true | Health News | Turkey reported its first infection just over two weeks ago. Since then, a surge in cases to 3,629 has outstripped rates in most other countries and the government has fallen short of its target to conduct 10,000 tests per day. In interviews with Reuters, experts have urged stronger stay-at-home orders and some said it... |
2865 | Specter of disease in Tonga after Cyclone Ian batters islands. | Widespread destruction caused by a tropical cyclone that hit the South Pacific island nation of Tonga last week is raising fears of a disease outbreak in the island kingdom. | true | Health News | Tropical Cyclone Ian, a category-five cyclone, appears to have destroyed up to 90 percent of homes on the northern Ha’apai Islands, which are home to about 8,000 people, the regional governor said on Wednesday. An emergency response team from British aid group Oxfam said the outer islands of Foa, Ha’ano and Mo’unga’one... |
34175 | Fentanyl users are stabbing their needles into toilet paper rolls in public bathrooms to clean them. | Have you seen other variations of this claim? Let us know. | unproven | Medical | In August 2019, a claim suggesting intravenous (IV) drug users were contaminating toilet paper in public restrooms circulated on social media. In this instance, the alleged contaminant was fentanyl: This was a variation of a familiar claim regarding IV drug use and toilet paper in public restrooms, which we identified... |
5013 | Wisconsin Democratic Sen. Baldwin cruises to second term. | Democratic Wisconsin Sen. Tammy Baldwin cruised to a re-election win over Republican Leah Vukmir after successfully making the race about health care and her support for guaranteeing insurance coverage for people with pre-existing conditions. | true | Madison, Wisconsin, Tammy Baldwin, Health, Elections, Donald Trump | Baldwin, one of the Senate’s most liberal members, beat Vukmir, a staunch supporter of President Donald Trump, by double digits, based on unofficial results. Baldwin won a number of counties that Trump took in 2016 when he narrowly carried Wisconsin by less than 1 point. Baldwin said in her victory speech Tuesday that ... |
3310 | A final fundraiser for man who boosted ice bucket challenge. | Hundreds of people plunged into the chilly ocean at a Massachusetts beach on Saturday to honor Peter Frates, the former college baseball player whose battle with Lou Gehrig’s disease helped spread the ALS ice bucket challenge. | true | AP Top News, Pete Frates, Health, General News, Oceans, Massachusetts, U.S. News, Gloucester | About 1,000 people showed up for the final “Plunge for Pete” at Good Harbor Beach in Gloucester, and more than half of those braved the frigid waters on what would have been Frates’ 35th birthday. The event, in its eighth year, raised money for the Pete Frates #3 Fund, which helped pay for Frates’ medical bills. “He is... |
18716 | "If the sequester hits, federal prosecutors will have to ""let criminals go." | "Obama said that, if the sequester hits, ""federal prosecutors will have to close cases and let criminals go."" It’s clear that U.S. Attorney’s offices are looking at a potential cut of $101 million, and a reduction of that size would almost certainly cut back on prosecutions in some fashion. However, the impacts are n... | false | National, Criminal Justice, Federal Budget, Legal Issues, Crime, Barack Obama, | "To pressure Congress to prevent the across-the-board cuts known as sequestration by the March 1, 2013, deadline, President Barack Obama gave a speech on Feb. 19 warning of dire consequences if it takes effect. ""Emergency responders like the ones who are here today -- their ability to help communities respond to and r... |
37866 | "Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said in a phone call that ""reopening"" his state would be accompanied by an increase in COVID-19 cases." | Did Texas Gov. Greg Abbott Admit That Reopening Businesses Would Lead to More COVID-19 Cases? | true | Fact Checks, Politics | In the middle of announcing his plan calling for workers to resume business amid the COVID-19 pandemic, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott was recorded admitting that he knew it would spur an increase in cases of the disease.“How do we know reopening businesses won’t result in faster spread of COVID-19?” Abbott asked during a conf... |
32815 | HUD is attempting to pass a law banning tiny houses and RV living. | "A lot of anxious bloggers incorrectly surmised HUD was moving to make ""tiny homes"" illegal." | false | Fauxtography, fake bans, HUD, Legal | In early April 2016 a number of blogs and recreational vehicle enthusiast sites began reporting that the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) was moving to make popular “tiny houses” and recreational vehicle (RV) living illegal under a sweeping new law. Due to the popularity of tiny homes, the rumor c... |
15709 | "Mitt Romney Says Hillary Clinton ""erased all of her emails even though they were subject to recall and review by Congress." | "Romney said that Clinton ""erased all of her emails even though they were subject to recall and review by Congress."" Romney got it wrong when he spoke of all of her emails. We know that about 30,000 emails were turned over to the State Department. Romney’s words about recall and review by Congress are ambiguous. In t... | false | Candidate Biography, PunditFact, Mitt Romney, | "Hillary Clinton’s announcement that she would run for president was met with a round of attacks from Republicans on the Sunday shows. Taking up the cause on Fox News Sunday was 2012 Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney. ""You've seen in polls and in discussions across the country a feeling that Hillary Clinton ... |
4803 | Senators urge review after mumps cases at immigrant center. | Congressmen and senators from Illinois are urging a review of health policies after a mumps outbreak at a northern Illinois county jail that houses immigrant detainees. | true | Health, General News, Immigration, Illinois, Mumps, Tammy Duckworth | Health officials confirmed six mumps cases earlier this month at McHenry County Jail, which contracts space to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. In a Wednesday letter the Democrats cite “serious concern” about conditions and urge a “thorough and urgent” policy review. The group seeks details on the outbreak. Th... |
10860 | Active Surveillance Preserves Quality of Life for Prostate Cancer Patients | A Vanderbilt University news release about an important study on prostate cancer treatments and quality of life left us disappointed: Why so few specifics on the measured benefits? In this 3-year study of more than 2,500 men with prostate cancer, researchers compared how these patients rated their quality of life after... | true | Academic medical center news release,Prostate cancer | Typically, we are asking that a release tell us the “cost” of a therapy or drug, but in this case, we wish the release had given some estimate of the cost savings from active surveillance for patients vs. surgery or radiation or both. This is an important point for both individual patients and the broader society since... |
920 | U.N. wants more urgency in AIDS fight as gains and funding fade. | The global fight against AIDS is stalling due to lower investment, marginalized communities missing vital health services, and new HIV infections rising in some parts, the United Nations warned on Tuesday. | true | Health News | More than half of all new HIV infections in 2018 were among sex workers, drug users, men who have sex with men, transgender people, prisoners and the sexual partners of these groups, according to a report by UNAIDS. Many of those populations did not get access to infection prevention services, it said. Progress in some... |
7067 | Cecile Richards stepping down as Planned Parenthood leader. | Cecile Richards, who led Planned Parenthood through 12 tumultuous years, is stepping down as its president. | true | Planned Parenthood, Health, Cecile Richards, Political activism, North America, U.S. News, United States | Under her leadership, the organization gained in membership, donor support and political clout but found itself in constant conflict with social conservatives for its role as the leading abortion provider in the United States. The organization provides a range of health services at clinics nationwide, including birth c... |
33502 | Jim Nabors married Rock Hudson were married to each other. | Did the mental image of a bridal-gowned Jim Nabors hinder his career? Well, put it this way: it couldn’t have helped. Neither did similarly titillating thoughts help Hudson, who was then battling to keep knowledge of his sexual orientation quiet lest it wipe out his career. | false | Entertainment, Actors, ASP Article, classic movies | Sometimes the most ridiculous rumors are the ones that prove the longest-lived. That is certainly the case with the rumored Nabors-Hudson union, a fabrication that entered popular lore in 1971. Unlike many bits of celebrity gossip, this tale began as a good-natured in-joke about two men in the entertainment industry wh... |
11541 | Trolling the Oceans to Combat Aging | This well written and well researched piece could have been a fantastic service for readers, one of the few stories we’ve seen to examine the medicinal claims being made by cosmetic companies for their products. Instead, it takes its cues from the same marketing it purports to examine. The story deserves credit for ask... | false | New York Times | The story says that these products retail for $65 to $95. We would have liked to have seen how long one of those products would last with typical daily use. Is it $95 a month? Every three months? The reporter apparently had access to an “84-page patent application” for the product being sold, but the story does not pre... |
23697 | "I never called for a partition"" of Iraq." | Joe Biden says he never called for partition of Iraq | true | National, Iraq, This Week - ABC News, Joe Biden, | "With fresh questions being raised about how to configure Iraq's government, Vice President Joe Biden was asked about a proposal that he advocated in 2007. ""You once advocated for a three-way partition of Iraq because you were not confident that Iraq's government was capable of having a strong central government,"" AB... |
38708 | It’s been rumored that a hoverboard law taking effect on January 1, 2016, permits and regulates the use to hoverboards in public spaces. | New Hoverboard Law Takes Effect January 2016 | mixture | Government | It’s true that a hoverboard law was set to take effect in California in January 2016. That law only applies to California, however, and even there local officials could restrict or ban the use of hoverboards in public places. Simply put: Hoverboard laws across the country are a mess. Whether or not hoverboards are lega... |
34290 | "The Boy Scouts of America lost 425,000 members in May 2018, in response to a decision to integrate more girls into the organization, and to give the ""Boy Scouts"" program a new, gender-neutral name." | Given the Mormon church’s teachings on LGBT issues and the separate roles of men and woman, as well as their previous uneasy responses to Boy Scout announcements on inclusion, it has to be considered plausible that the BSA’s announcements might have played a role in the Church’s decision to cut ties. | unproven | Politics, boy scouts | The Boy Scouts of America, a bastion of civil society and traditional values for more than a century in the United States, has undertaken some significant changes in recent years. Following a long-standing controversy, the organization in 2014 lifted their ban on openly gay members, in 2015 allowed openly gay adult sco... |
38717 | There’s a Kroger 40% off coupon making the rounds on Facebook that sounds too good to be true. | A major wildfire threatened thousands of homes and the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library near Los Angeles on Wednesday as the fiercest Santa Ana winds yet lashed Southern California, forcing meteorologists to create new alert levels to warn of the danger. | false | Internet | The blaze erupted early on Wednesday morning in Simi Valley, northwest of Los Angeles in Ventura County, and by nightfall had charred 1,300 acres (526 hectares) as crews fought to protect the Reagan library and some 7,000 homes in the path of the flames. The Easy Fire, which forced 26,000 people to flee, broke out some... |
13810 | "In South Sudan, ""more teenage girls die in childbirth than finish high school." | "UNICEF wrote that in South Sudan, ""more teenage girls die in childbirth than finish high school."" The claim is almost certainly correct, experts say. But there is no single data source that can verify the comparison." | true | Global News Service, Education, Foreign Policy, Poverty, Public Health, Women, UN's UNICEF, | "There are countries where the measures of well-being tell such a bleak story, you have to stop and verify them. South Sudan falls in that group. UNICEF, the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund, marked the fifth year since this African nation separated from its northern neighbor with a photo essay ab... |
28528 | A transgender woman raped a young girl in a women's bathroom because bills were passed allowing transgender people to use bathrooms which correspond with their gender. | What's true: A transgender woman named Michelle Martinez was convicted of sexually assaulting a young daughter of a friend in a bathroom in a private home. What's false: The incident did not occur in a bathroom Martinez was using because of transgender bathroom bills. | mixture | Politics Sexuality, bathroom controversies, bathroom incidents, daily caller | In mid-October 2017, conservative journalists and bloggers sought to link a case of child sexual abuse to an ongoing debate about allowing transgender people to use the public restroom that matches their gender. Proponents of so-called “bathroom bills”, legislating that transgender people must use the restroom of the s... |
10614 | Immune Response Better With Skin Scratch Vaccination | "This is no way to cover science. The story buried the fact that the research was in animals not in humans (not mentioned until 300 words deep in a 350 word article). The story described ""much greater effectiveness"" with scarification vs. injection but gave no data. Not a word about possible pitfalls in leap from mic... | false | "There was no discussion of costs, but that seems like a minor issue in this context, so we’ll grade this Not Applicable. The story gave no data on scarification vaccination effectiveness in the animals studied. The story described ""much greater effectiveness"" but didn’t explain nor quantify. It did say that ""scarif... | |
2492 | Seven African countries cut child HIV infections by half. | Seven countries in sub-Saharan Africa, the world’s worst-hit region in the global AIDS epidemic, have cut the number of new HIV infections in children by 50 percent since 2009, the United Nations AIDS program said on Tuesday. | true | Health News | The dramatic reductions - in Botswana, Ethiopia, Ghana, Malawi, Namibia, South Africa and Zambia - mean tens of thousands more babies are now being born free of HIV, UNAIDS said in a report on its Global Plan to tackle the disease in around 20 of the worst affected countries. Overall, across 21 priority countries in Af... |
41651 | A&E four hour targets have been missed more than 10 million times since 2010. | After a summer of wildfires, heat waves and hurricanes, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres says he is banking on new pledges from governments and businesses to abandon fossil fuels during a special climate summit in New York on Monday. | true | health | With Swedish teen Greta Thunberg and other activists piling pressure on delegates ahead of the Climate Action Summit, U.N. officials expect about 60 countries to build on their commitments to the 2015 Paris Agreement to combat global warming. “We are losing the fight against climate change,” Guterres told a news confer... |
10512 | Patch boosts libido for some older women | "This article about a treatment for low female sexual satisfaction does a first-rate job of putting generally positive study results in context. The reporter draws on deeper knowledge about the product and the study to avoid creating a misleading impression. No reader will come away thinking the patch has been proven s... | true | "The story does not cite the cost of the patch sold in Europe, which could be a marker for possible pricing in the U.S. In a story that discusses the competitive commercial environment of the treatment’s development, this is a serious shortcoming. The report adequately describes the methodology and outcomes of the stud... | |
11503 | Nonprescription diet drug gets OK | "This is a story crafted around the news that the FDA has approved the sale of a lower dose, over-the-counter (OTC) version of the diet medication orlistat. The story insinuates that the OTC version would have a similar effect on weight loss as does the prescription strength. Although both are likely to be associated ... | true | "The story mentioned alli would cost between $2-$3 per day. The claim for this over-the-counter version of this medication was that it will have similar effect on weight loss as the dose available by prescription. However, data from the original studies designed to examine effectiveness of this medication show that the... | |
10189 | Virtual colonoscopy a less invasive cancer screener | "On September 18, 2008, the long anticipated results of the American College of Radiology Imaging Network (ACRIN) CT Colonography trial were published in the New England Journal of Medicine. This trial represented the largest, multicenter trial evaluating CT colonography as a screening method for colon cancer in asympt... | false | "Not only does the story overstate the cost of colonoscopy (it is much less than $3000) but it should not have gone so far as to speculate that the U.S. Department of Health & Human Servies would rule in favor of covering virtual colonoscopy, especially given the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force conclusion that ""th... | |
31446 | In just over a year, more than sixty holistic health practitioners have died suspicious deaths, and the media refuses to acknowledge that these deaths might be linked. | There is no conspiracy afoot. Instead, there are simply 61 individual tragedies that have been inelegantly strung together by an alternative health website whose not-so-subtle innuendo has subsequently echoed through the darkest and most paranoid corners of the internet — and which has begun to leak into mainstream med... | false | Medical, holistic doctors | On 19 June 2015, a controversial doctor named Jeffrey Bradstreet was found dead in a river by a local fisherman from what the local sheriff’s office later determined was a self-inflicted gunshot wound to his chest. Bradstreet was an outspoken proponent of the discredited theory that vaccines cause autism, as well as a ... |
35224 | "In regards to reopening the economy during the COVID-19 pandemic, the former CEO of Wells Fargo stated, ""We’ll gradually bring those people back and see what happens. Some of them will get sick, some may even die, I don’t know." | I would say I was misquoted in that interview. There was a lot of context that was omitted. What I think is that we need, we do need to get people back to work as soon as it is safe to do so. This is not just for economic reasons. Those of us who have been in San Francisco and in lockdown now for almost two weeks. It’s... | true | Politics, COVID-19 | In late March 2020, controversy erupted when U.S. President Donald Trump suggested that, despite a deadly COVID-19 pandemic with a rising death toll, Americans should end social-distancing measures and return to work by Easter in order to avert further harm to the economy. Trump’s suggestion flew in the face of the rec... |
5861 | Rise in syphilis cases in north Alabama. | A sharp increase in syphilis cases has led the Alabama Department of Public Health to issue a health advisory for north Alabama. | true | Health, Alabama, Public health, Syphilis | ADPH says there’s been a 90 percent increase in reported cases over 2015 in Madison County. The department announced Friday that 54 cases have been reported in Madison County in 2016. Health officials say infection can occur after a person has direct contact with a syphilis sore during vaginal, anal or oral sex. Syphil... |
7512 | Wary of irking China, Trump offers rosy take on virus threat. | President Donald Trump regaled a friendly New Jersey campaign crowd with his thoughts about with his thoughts about impeachment, the economy, the border wall, local politics and much more. | true | AP Top News, Health, Ebola virus, Politics, China, Virus Outbreak, Asia Pacific, U.S. News, U.S. News, General News, Donald Trump | But he was conspicuously quiet Tuesday about one big issue keeping much of the globe on pins and needles: the spread of a deadly new type of coronavirus. It has killed more than 170 people in China, sickened thousands more there and led to a handful of confirmed cases in the U.S., including the first U.S. case of pers... |
34505 | Vintage Pyrex contains unsafe levels of lead, making it dangerous for any sort of food serving or storing purpose. | We were unable to locate any other information substantiating the claim that vintage Pyrex contained any worrisome levels of lead. All information we could find indicated that the method of production has stayed consistent for 60 years. The FDA began enforcing limits on leachable lead in 1971, and a vintage Pyrex patte... | unproven | Medical, lead, pyrex, scarelore | On 30 November 2016, the Facebook page “Punk Rock Homesteading” shared a report that vintage Pyrex dishes contain unsafe levels of lead. The linked article was published by Creative Green Living in October 2015, and strongly discouraged the use of vintage Pyrex due to a purported issue with high lead content. (Pyrex ha... |
17098 | In 2005, Dan Branch tried to expand third-trimester abortions in Texas. | Texas lawmakers including Dan Branch tightened limit on late abortions in 2005 | false | Abortion, Corrections and Updates, Texas, Texas Right to Life, | "Have Republican voters advanced a candidate for attorney general who tried to make abortion more accessible? Texas Right to Life said in a March 21, 2014, email blast about state Rep. Dan Branch of Dallas, ""In 2005, Branch tried to expand third-trimester abortions in Texas!"" The blast said the change ""would have en... |
20658 | Statistics bear out that any time a country, a state, makes more restrictive abortion laws ... fatalities go up and abortions actually increase. | Nickie Antonio says restrictive abortion laws actually drive up abortions and fatalities | false | Abortion, Ohio, Government Regulation, Women, Nickie Antonio, | "While GOP lawmakers focused their energy last year on abortion legislation, some have fought those laws with similar conviction. Rep. Nickie Antonio, a freshman lawmaker from Lakewood, has been among the steady voices in opposition to Republicans’ anti-abortion efforts. Antonio recently attempted to contrast the GOP’s... |
7896 | H&M starts protective face mask production at Chinese supplier. | Sweden’s H&M, the world’s second-biggest fashion retailer, said on Friday it had started production of protective face masks for hospital staff and would ship the first batches to Spain and Italy. | true | Health News | “At this first stage, 100,000 face masks will be produced and ready for delivery on April 2. Half will go to Italy and half to Spain. It is a factory in China that makes the masks,” a H&M spokeswoman said in an email. H&M said last week it was looking into using its supply network to source personal protective equipmen... |
24574 | "The Department of Veterans Affairs has ""a manual out there telling our veterans stuff like, 'Are you really of value to your community?' You know, encouraging them to commit suicide." | RNC chairman Michael Steele says VA has a manual that encourages vets to commit suicide | false | National, Health Care, Veterans, Michael Steele, | "Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele jumped into the so-called VA ""death book"" debate, calling it just the kind of thing that makes people nervous about the Democrats' health care reform plan. ""If you want an example of bad public policy, just look at the situation with our veterans where you have ... |
2832 | Saudi healthcare booms as state scrambles to close welfare gap. | Stock market listings planned by two of Saudi Arabia’s biggest private hospital operators point to a boom in its healthcare industry, as political pressures prompt the government to pour huge sums into the underdeveloped sector. | true | Health News | Many areas of Saudi consumption, including the retail industry, housing and travel, have ballooned in the past decade because of oil-fuelled growth in national income. But healthcare has lagged, partly because of government inefficiency and bureaucracy. Now the mediocre quality of state-run healthcare has become a poli... |
9042 | Cavity prevention approach effectively reduces tooth decay | In a study of 460 patients at high risk of dental damage separated into two groups, those who used cavity-prevention products dramatically reduced their risk of cavities compared to the control group, according to researchers at the University of California, San Francisco. The system of prevention is known by the acron... | true | cavity prevention,tooth decay,University of California - San Francisco | While the news release says the research is aimed at lowering costs and reducing the burden for low income patients, we are not given any numbers that describes the value of the intervention. The release only gets as detailed on cost as the excerpts below: The findings, which support earlier research demonstrating posi... |
28348 | Jerry Brown vetoed a wildfire management bill in 2016, contributing to the prevalence and risk of wildfires in the ensuing two years. | What's true: In September 2016, Governor Brown vetoed SB 1463, a bill in the California legislature which would have required the California Public Utilities Commission to prioritize areas at increased risk from overhead wires in their management of wildfires. What's false: There is no evidence that Brown's veto contri... | mixture | Politics, california, california wildfires, jerry brown | In November 2018, after the Camp Fire broke out in Northern California, killing more than 40 people and destroying thousands of homes, social media users began sharing a three-month-old article that placed a share of the blame for California’s 2018 wildfire season, already one of the most destructive in living memory, ... |
22022 | Most of your serial killers, most of your people who commit domestic violence, they start off by abusing animals. | Rhode Island Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals chief says 'most' serial killers and people who engage in domestic violence start by abusing animals | false | Animals, Rhode Island, Children, Crime, Public Safety, E.J. Finocchio, | "The Rhode Island Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals wants the legal system to impose harsher sentences in animal cruelty cases. During a discussion on the issue on WJAR's ""10 News Conference,"" which aired April 24, RISPCA President E.J. Finocchio said animal abusers are allowed to plead ""no contest"" ... |
11353 | Surgery for chronic temporal headaches -- simplified approach shows good results | This news release describes a modified surgical facelift procedure that may help treat a certain type of chronic headache. It’s based on a report written by a surgeon from the American Society of Plastic Surgeons, which was published in the Society’s latest journal issue. The study was based on the surgeon’s experience... | mixture | Journal news release,Pain management | There is no discussion of costs in the news release. Surgery to treat chronic severe headaches could prove to be expensive (ie. thousands of dollars), since the intervention may also require anesthesia, operating room facilities and a hospital stay. Although costs may vary widely depending on the hospital and region, w... |
2440 | Israel attacks Council of Europe move to restrict male circumcision. | Israel on Friday accused a leading European human rights body of fostering hatred and racism in calling for the circumcision of boys on religious grounds to be monitored more closely. | true | Health News | The 47-nation Council of Europe adopted a non-binding resolution this week that urged a public debate on “non-medically justified operations and interventions” on children. The report highlighted female genital mutilation but also referred to ritual male circumcision and other practices. Israel said the Council should ... |
22606 | "Since Sept. 11, 2001, ""270,000 Americans were killed by gunfire at home." | Doonesbury strip says 270,000 Americans have been killed by guns since 9/11 | true | National, Pundits, Guns, Doonesbury, | "In the Sunday, Feb. 13, 2011, installment of the comic strip Doonesbury, Mark Slackmeyer -- a longtime character in the strip who is a liberal radio host -- makes a point about gun violence. ""What are we like as a people?"" Slackmeyer muses to himself in his studio. ""Nine years, ago we were attacked -- 3,000 people ... |
34207 | Alaska Airlines flight attendant saved a young female passenger from human trafficking during a flight in 2011. | Either way, as she concluded, “We can’t know, because no one will provide any specifics, nor even confirm or deny that the incident occurred.” | unproven | Politics | Awareness of the problem and patterns of human trafficking has increased significantly in recent years, leading to efforts to train those who work in fields that often intersect with that form of crime — such as the lodging and transportation industries — to be aware of the common signs of human trafficking activity. G... |
2841 | Pakistani city is world's biggest reservoir of polio viruses. | Pakistan’s volatile northwestern city of Peshawar is the largest reservoir of endemic polio viruses in the world, the World Health Organization said on Friday, amid concerns over continuing violence against polio vaccination teams. | true | Health News | Pakistan is also the only polio-endemic country in the world where polio cases rose from 2012 to 2013, the statement said. There were 91 cases last year but only 58 the year before. Polio can permanently paralyze or kill victims within hours of infection. Intensive vaccination campaigns have almost eradicated the disea... |
29612 | The American Red Cross charges a fee to persons whom they assist. | What's true: At the request of the U.S. Army, during World War II the Red Cross charged American GIs stationed abroad for off-base food and lodging. What's false: The Red Cross doesn't charge disaster victims for the assistance they receive. | false | Medical, Emergency Room, hurricane katrina, louisiana | The Red Cross has long been dogged by the persistent belief that it exacts payment for its services from the victims of disasters. In the wake of Hurricane Katrina in 2005 that notion surfaced again, this time asserting those left homeless and desperate were being charged for coffee, cups of juice, and cookies: We hear... |
3698 | Local authorities: Mysterious illness in China is not SARS. | The mysterious respiratory illness that has infected dozens of people in a central Chinese city is not SARS, local authorities said Sunday. | true | Severe acute respiratory syndrome, Health, Hong Kong, General News, Wuhan, Epidemics, China, Asia Pacific | The 2002-2003 SARS epidemic started in southern China and killed more than 700 people in mainland China, Hong Kong and elsewhere. Fears of a SARS recurrence arose this month after a slate of patients were hospitalized with an unexplained viral pneumonia in Wuhan, the capital of Hubei province. As of Sunday, 59 people w... |
8414 | Coronavirus clue? Most cases aboard U.S. aircraft carrier are symptom-free. | Sweeping testing of the entire crew of the coronavirus-stricken U.S. aircraft carrier Theodore Roosevelt may have revealed a clue about the pandemic: The majority of the positive cases so far are among sailors who are asymptomatic, officials say. | true | Health News | The possibility that the coronavirus spreads in a mostly stealthy mode among a population of largely young, healthy people showing no symptoms could have major implications for U.S. policy-makers, who are considering how and when to reopen the economy. It also renews questions about the extent to which U.S. testing of ... |
23822 | "Sharron Angle supported ""a Scientology plan to give massages to prisoners." | Reid ad claims Angle supported a Scientology plan to give massages to prisoners | mixture | National, Crime, Message Machine 2010, Religion, Harry Reid, | "Shortly after Sharron Angle won the Nevada Republican primary, Democratic opponent Harry Reid quickly picked up on some of the attacks levelled against Angle by her Republican primary opponent.According to a Reid ad, Angle supported ""a Scientology plan to give massages to prisoners. ""As a Nevada Assemblywoman in 200... |
17366 | "300,000 Floridians will lose their current health plans"" because of Obamacare, a plan Alex Sink supports." | "The National Republican Congressional Committee said in an ad that ""300,000 Floridians will lose their current health plans."" We know that the insurer Florida Blue had to end plans for 300,000 customers when their plans didn’t meet the law’s new requirements for health insurance. But Florida Blue also said it intend... | mixture | National, Health Care, National Republican Congressional Committee, | "Critics of the health care law like to throw around talking points that give the idea that the law will increase the ranks of the uninsured. The evidence, though, tends to contradict that. That hasn’t stopped political ads from continuing to push the point. The latest case: The race to replace the late U.S. Rep. C.W. ... |
1822 | In Thailand, baby gender selection loophole draws China, HK women to IVF clinics. | At 26, with a baby daughter, a Hong Kong mother and her husband wanted a second child. To make sure it would be a boy, they paid $9,000 and flew to Thailand, the last place in Asia where gender selection treatment is available and breaks no law. | true | Health News | “In Chinese tradition, a girl and a boy means good, perfect,” said the mother, who requested anonymity. “There’s nothing wrong with girls, but in Hong Kong and Chinese tradition all families like boys.” The mother is one of hundreds of women from mainland China, Hong Kong and Australia who visit Bangkok each year for ... |
25849 | Facebook post Says Herman Cain died of cancer, not COVID-19. | Herman Cain died of complications from COVID-19 on July 30. In 2006, he was diagnosed with Stage 4 colon cancer, which spread to his liver, but he recovered and went on to run for president in 2012. | false | Corrections and Updates, Facebook Fact-checks, Coronavirus, Facebook posts, | "On July 30, Herman Cain, who sought the Republican nomination for president in 2012, died of complications from COVID-19. Dan Calabrese, the editor of HermanCain.com, broke the news in a post on the website that morning. ""We knew that when he was first hospitalized with COVID-19 that this was going to be a rough figh... |
4350 | Despite detente, sanctions on North Korea fan TB epidemic. | Doctor O Yong Il swings open a glass door with a bright orange biohazard sign and gestures to the machine he hoped would revolutionize his life’s work. It’s called the GeneXpert and it’s about the size of a household microwave oven. As chief of North Korea’s National Tuberculosis Reference Laboratory, Dr. O saw it as a... | true | AP Top News, Health, North Korea, Epidemics, Tuberculosis, Pyongyang, Asia Pacific, Public health, International News | Tuberculosis is North Korea’s biggest public health problem. With this American-made machine, his lab would be able to complete a TB test in just two hours, instead of two months. It took years, but Dr. O got the machines, only to discover that GeneXpert needs cartridges he can’t replace. It’s not entirely clear what a... |
10414 | Prostate Cancer Drug Slows Memory Loss in Women with Alzheimer's Disease | Misleading to the point of deception, this news release ignores all primary and secondary analyses of the study it ostensibly reports on — which were uniformly negative and showed no benefit — and instead treats a positive subgroup analysis as if it were the main finding of the study. It also failed to mention the pote... | false | Academic medical center news release,Alzheimer's disease | The press release does not provide any indication of this drug combination cost. Since both drugs are on the market, some estimate should be possible. We realize that university news releases may not be accustomed to being judged by a standard that calls for cost information. But 70% of ~2,000 health care news stories ... |
5854 | Trump administration opposing bid for syphilis study museum. | The Trump administration opposes a bid to use unclaimed money from a legal settlement over the government’s infamous Tuskegee syphilis study to fund a museum honoring victims of the research project. | true | Sexually transmitted diseases, Race and ethnicity, Health, Lawsuits, Museums, Courts, Syphilis, Legal settlements | The Justice Department argued in court documents recently that providing the money to the Tuskegee Human and Civil Rights Multicultural Center would violate an agreement reached in 1975 to settle a class-action lawsuit. For the study, hundreds of black men suffering from the sexually transmitted disease were allowed to... |
6005 | Airbnb to train volunteers for science research sabbatical. | Airbnb is offering a handful of people concerned about the environment a chance to participate in scientific research on how to help preserve it during an all-expense paid trip to Antarctica. | true | Environment, Chile, General News, Entertainment, Sabbaticals, Lifestyle, Antarctica, Science, Glaciers, U.S. News, Pollution | The Antarctic Sabbatical , as the travel company is dubbing it, will give five people the opportunity to study how widely micro plastics have infiltrated the region. Over a month’s time in December, they’ll be trained in lab work in Chile, collect snow samples in Antarctica, climb key glaciers and even visit the South ... |
17407 | "A friend’s sister ""died from Obamacare"" because Blue Shield ""completely just pulled out of California." | "Coulter said a friend’s sister ""died from Obamacare"" because she was ""thrown off her insurance plan, you know Blue Shield completely just pulled out of California."" We're not fact-checking whether someone died. We're looking at the circumstances Coulter presented. Blue Shield did not pull out of California, and th... | false | Health Care, PunditFact, Ann Coulter, | "Of all the reasons Republicans oppose Obamacare, none is more stark than death. Conservative pundit Ann Coulter on Feb. 2, 2014, offered what she called a ""shocking and horrible"" personal story on Fox & Friends Weekend illustrating lethal consequences of the health care law. Coulter told host Tucker Carlson that she... |
10465 | Blood pressure vaccine maybe on way | This article explores the mid-stage development of a vaccine to control high blood pressure. It has several serious flaws. It fails to report that several effective, inexpensive treatments are available for the condition It includes too much commentary from self-interested sources and not enough from those who challeng... | false | "The article says the vaccine developers see them as ""potential low-cost"" products to control or prevent chronic disease. If this assertion is made in the article it should be explored or challenged. The initial choices for management of hypertension are a thiazide diuretic and a beta blocker. These drugs are pennies... | |
11599 | Two new drugs extend survival for melanoma patients | More broadly, the story contained none of the restrained context provided by the Times. Read and compare. Stories about cancer – perhaps especially melanoma because of its treatment challenges – should balance promise with realistic context. This story fell short in comparison with the competing New York Times story. | true | Cancer,CNN | Not a word about costs – difficult to comprehend given the estimates the New York Times provided of $120,000 per course of treatment for one and “at least tens of thousands” per year for another. Is this not an issue worthy of a line? Adequate explanation of the benefits reported in both studies. Not a single word abou... |
9186 | Postmenopausal hormone therapy exceeding ten years may protect from dementia | When the news release launches with a discussion of two huge studies and saying that the “largest study comprised approximately 230,000 Finnish women and the follow-up time in different studies was up to 20 years” you think you are going to hear some stunning findings with ample evidence to back them up. Instead, this ... | false | dementia,hormone therapy,University of Eastern Finland | There is no discussion of costs in the release. Hormone replacement therapies have been on the market for decades, and their well-known costs should have been included. The cost to an individual may not be very high, but the cost to society of unnecessary, and potentially harmful, hormone prescriptions could be very hi... |
34373 | People in Brooklyn are refusing to vaccinate their pets based on fears created by the anti-vaccine movement. | As such, we rank the purported increase anti-pet-vaccination in Brooklyn as unproven. | unproven | Medical, anti-vaccine, brooklyn, brooklynpaper | On 1 August 2017, BrooklynPaper.com — the internet-facing side of a local Brooklyn weekly — published a story that claimed to document an increase in Brooklyn pet owners refusing to vaccinate their pets over fears the treatment would give their furry friends autism: A growing, national anti-vaccination movement that cl... |
11086 | Stem Cells Carry Hope for Lupus | A first glance may suggest that this is a controversial topic because the piece is entitled “Stem Cells Carry Hope for Lupus.” However, these are stem cells derived from the patient’s own bone marrow and are thus not fodder for the embryonic stem cell debate. This article reports on the use of a common cancer therapy, ... | mixture | The costs for HSCT was not mentioned. No estimate for the percentage of patients who did not respond to standard treatment and who would be expected to die within the time frame of the study. (However – and this is no excuse for the journalist – this information was not in the original research reported on either.) The... | |
285 | 'Storm approaching': firms fear for deliveries in shipping shakeup. | U.S. furniture company RC Willey Home Furnishings is so concerned that new global clean air rules will cause transport disruption that it brought forward the shipment of arm chairs and sofas from China by two months. | true | Environment | The tougher regulations, set by the United Nations shipping agency, the International Maritime Organization (IMO), come into force on Jan 1. Costs will rise for ships towards the end of this year and there will be a knock on effect for trucks and other transporters that move goods around the world. For shipping compani... |
30365 | "The FCC raided CNN's head offices on the grounds that the TV news network was ""violating press guidelines." | The falsity of this report is part and parcel for Your News Wire, which is a clickbait-driven fake news site. | false | Junk News, CNN, fake news, your news wire | On 23 May 2018, the Your News Wire web site published an article reporting that the head offices of the CNN news network (along with those of MSNBC and the Associated Press) had been raided by the FCC on that grounds that those news outlets were “violating press guidelines”: The CNN head office in Atlanta, Georgia, was... |
34768 | Sargento cheese was recalled on 9 May 2017 (or in August/September 2017), because it might kill your whole family. | What's true: Fourteen varieties of the brand were recalled in February 2017, a warning inaccurately resurrected with a clickbait title several months later. What's false: Sargento cheese was not recalled in May, August, or September 2017, or in 2018. | mixture | Junk News, america flash news, fake recalls, misleading | On 9 May 2017, a large number of Facebook users shared an alarming link about Sargento (“America’s Most Popular Cheese”) harboring bacteria with the potential to “kill your family”: America Flash News reported that in early May 2017, Sargento cheeses were part of a “massive recall”: It’s time to check your fridges. Sa... |
22508 | "Chain email Says that in a hearing, Rep. Gabrielle Giffords suggested to Gen. David Petraeus that the Army ""put more emphasis on less environmentally damaging methods, like stabbing or clubbing enemy forces in order to minimize the carbon output." | Chain e-mail on Gabrielle Giffords treats satire as truth | false | Environment, National, Energy, Military, Chain email, | "A reader recently forwarded us a chain e-mail with a rather striking claim about Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., who is recovering from a brain injury after an assassination attempt in Tucson, Ariz., on Jan. 8, 2011. A version of it has been posted on a variety of blog sites, including this one. Here are excerpts: ... |
10704 | Grand Slam Champ: John McEnroe Raising Awareness On Cancer | This has been a very good week for former tennis star John McEnroe. But not so good for men who may have seen him on TV. A prime time appearance on CNN’s Larry King Live promoting prostate cancer screening A CBS Early Show appearance promoting prostate cancer screening And he was getting paid all the time by a drug co... | false | "There was no discussion of the cost of prostate cancer screening or treatment. Guess what? The tennis star – whose appearance was being paid for by a drug company – didn’t discuss any evidence. There was no discussion of the harms of prostate cancer screening. The US Preventive Services Task Force reminds men: Potenti... | |
1756 | India gets minister for yoga and traditional medicine. | India has set up a ministry to promote alternative therapies such as yoga and traditional ayurveda medicine, as Prime Minister Narendra Modi embarks on a mission to raise awareness and the appeal of home-grown health treatments. | true | Health News | Modi has repeatedly called for greater use of India’s health remedies and exercises, part of a push to promote traditional learning. During his first address at the United Nations in September, he encouraged more people to take up yoga and called for an International Yoga Day. “This is our system and it has not receive... |
562 | Haze wraps India's capital again as air quality plummets. | Haze shrouded India’s capital city again on Monday, with residents braving dangerous air quality to return to work after a weekend of clearer air and better weather. | true | Environment | The air quality index of the U.S. Embassy in New Delhi stood at “hazardous” levels of 497 as of 0630 GMT, with levels of airborne PM 2.5 - particles that can reach deep into the lungs - touching nearly 700 in parts of the city. That is more than 10 times the recommended safe limit of 60 for PM 2.5. A dip in wind speed ... |
41321 | Tri(n) butylphosphate is in vaccines and is potentially damaging to the kidneys and the nervous system. | We can find no evidence of this being used in vaccines in the UK. | unproven | online | Beta-Propiolactone is in vaccines and is known to cause cancer, suspected gastrointestinal, liver, nerve and respiratory, skin and sense organ poison. It may be present in trace amounts of some vaccines. It is potentially carcinogenic, but only in much larger amounts than would be in a vaccine. The antibiotics gentamic... |
23350 | More people were killed in the United States last year by tainted food than U.S. troops killed in Iraq and Afghanistan since the wars began. | Ted Ankrum, Democrat for U.S. House, says annual U.S. deaths due to food poisoning exceed U.S. deaths in the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts | false | Afghanistan, Food Safety, Iraq, Texas, Ted Ankrum, | "Ted Ankrum, the Democratic nominee for the U.S. House seat held by Michael McCaul, R-Austin, floats a startling comparison in an e-mail blast advocating laws ensuring food inspections: ""More people were killed in the United States last year by tainted food than U.S. troops killed in Iraq and Afghanistan since the war... |
8091 | Indian doctors evicted over coronavirus transmission fears: medical body. | Some doctors combating India’s coronavirus outbreak have been evicted from their homes by force, a medical association said on Wednesday, due to fears that they may be infected and spread the disease to neighbors. | true | Health News | The country went into a 21-day lockdown on Wednesday, and experts have said it faces a tidal wave of infections if rigorous steps are not taken to keep the virus in check. India’s public health care infrastructure is poor and it suffers from an acute shortage of medical staff, who will generally see many patients over ... |
35024 | Videos show people collapsing on the street due to coronavirus. | “The main reason for this declaration is not what is happening in China but what is happening in other countries,” said WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. | unproven | Medical | In January 2020, videos supposedly showing people collapsing on the street due to “coronavirus” started to circulate on social media. Here’s one example that garnered more than 1.2 million views: Wuhan China 🇨🇳 Corona Virus Update⚠️ Disturbing Leaked Video shows People literally falling over as they succumb to Virus... |
34841 | "In a 1990 episode, ""The Simpsons"" predicted future real-life campaigns to censor and cover up replicas of Michelangelo's ""David"" statue." | "What's true: The episode in question did show a campaign to censor and cover up the male figure's genitals in Michelangelo's ""David,"" and the show did air in 1990, years before several real-life campaigns to similarly censor replicas of the statue. What's false: Michelangelo's ""David,"" and replicas of it, have bee... | mixture | Entertainment | Several times in recent years, various websites and online “listicles” have claimed that, among other uncanny predictions, the Simpsons once pre-empted the real-life censorship of Michelangelo’s “David” statue. In particular, in 2017 the comedian and former NFL punter Pat McAfee devoted a five-minute segment on his pod... |
18571 | "Joe Barton Says U.S. greenhouse gas ""emissions are at 20-year lows." | The congressman said domestic greenhouse gas emissions are at a 20-year low. This statement depends on a comparison of energy-related carbon dioxide emissions—not all greenhouse gases--over three unusually warm winter months of 2012 to such emissions in the same months of 1992. But the latest information available when... | false | Climate Change, Corrections and Updates, Energy, Science, Texas, Joe Barton, | "As President Barack Obama brought up his interest in addressing global warming, a Texas congressman said U.S. emissions of greenhouse gases, widely believed to be fueling climate change, are on the decline. ""DID YOU KNOW?"" Rep. Joe Barton, R-Arlington, wrote on Twitter during Obama’s Feb. 12, 2013, State of the Unio... |
14478 | When the City and the Fairmount Park Conservancy invested $5 million in Hunting Park, crime went down 89 percent within a half mile radius of the park over the next three years. | "Kenney used the efforts in Hunting Park as an example of why City Council should authorize more funds to revitalize parks and recreation centers throughout the city. He said ""when the city and the Fairmount Park Conservancy invested $5 million in Hunting Park, crime went down 89 percent within a half mile radius of t... | true | Public Safety, Pennsylvania, Jim Kenney, | "As he asked Philadelphia City Council to consider a $300 million investment in the city’s parks and recreation centers, Mayor Jim Kenney told a success story. During his budget address in council chambers last week, the first-year mayor said that when the city and the Fairmount Park Conservancy invested $5 million in ... |
40937 | Viruses are dead material expelled from healing cells. Everyone has thousands of viruses inside their body. | There is debate about whether viruses are technically alive. The human body does contain a number of viruses that don’t do harm. Covid-19 is caused by a virus that is potentially very harmful though. | false | online | You cannot catch Covid-19 from touching surfaces. Viruses are dead material expelled from healing cells. Everyone has thousands of viruses inside their body. There is debate about whether viruses are technically alive. The human body does contain a number of viruses that don’t do harm. Covid-19 is caused by a virus tha... |
25897 | Great Lakes News Says Gov. Gretchen Whitmer “defunded the Michigan State Police and the prisons.” | The state is facing a $2.2 billion budget shortfall. Whitmer proposed cutting state funding for the Michigan State Police and Department of Corrections and using federal dollars to fill most of the gap. | false | Michigan, Great Lakes News, | "As Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer tries to close a gaping budget shortfall, a news outlet in the state accuses her of defunding the police to do so. A July 22 tweet from Great Lakes News, whose news program is broadcast on radio stations across Michigan, claims that the Democratic governor ""defunded the Michigan Stat... |
26567 | "Jeff Jackson Says North Carolina ""hospital beds are typically 85% full across the state.”" | "North Carolina State Sen. Jeff Jackson urged the public to limit trips to the hospital, tweeting that North Carolina's ""hospital beds are typically 85% full across the state."" Records show that NC hospitals are, on average throughout the year, between 60-to-75% full. However, medical professionals say Jackson is rig... | mixture | North Carolina, Coronavirus, Jeff Jackson, | "Hospitals are preparing for an influx of patients as the novel coronavirus spreads across the U.S. With that in mind, North Carolina state Sen. Jeff Jackson has tried to keep his constituents informed by posting on social media. Jackson, a Mecklenburg County Democrat, regularly tweets stats about the pandemic. And on ... |
22339 | Originally, Democrats promised that if you liked your health care plan, you could keep it. One year later we know that you need a waiver to keep your plan. | Morgan Griffith says you need a waiver to keep your health care plan | false | Health Care, Virginia, Morgan Griffith, | "U.S. Rep. Morgan Griffith is on the long list of Republicans who observed the first anniversary of the health-care reform law by firing out a scathing statement. Griffith, who represents the 9th Congressional District in Southwest Virginia, said in a March 25 newsletter that Americans were misled about the bill. ""Or... |
1686 | Forget the martini lunch, sweatworking mixes business with exercise. | Sweatworking, the growing practice of meeting clients for a walk, a run or a fitness class, is elbowing networking out of bars and restaurants and into boutique fitness studios. | true | Health News | A yoga, barre or spin class has become the new nine holes of golf, fitness experts said, chased by a post-workout smoothie rather than a three-martini lunch. “Sweatworking was born out of a desire to connect with clients on a deeper level that wasn’t so sales-y,” said Sarah Siciliano, 32, an advertising executive who h... |
8403 | Indonesia reports most coronavirus cases in Southeast Asia. | Indonesia reported on Friday 407 new coronavirus cases, taking the total number to 5,923 and surpassing the Philippines as the country with the highest number of infections in Southeast Asia. | true | Health News | The announcement came a day after an Indonesian official said the number of cases could reach 106,000 by July and follows criticism that a low rate of testing has hidden the extent of the spread of the virus. Indonesia has accelerated testing and Achmad Yurianto, a health ministry official, said on Friday 42,000 tests ... |
18404 | On support for gay marriage | "We’re considering whether Crist has flip-flopped on his position on gay marriage. Looking back through his political career in Florida, we found that Crist’s opinion has traversed the spectrum. As a Republican gubernatorial candidate in 2006, Crist signed a petition to help get a gay marriage ban on the Florida ballot... | false | Marriage, Florida, Charlie Crist, | "Charlie Crist, Florida’s once (and future?) governor, posted a note on his Facebook page congratulating two states for legalizing gay marriage. ""Some great news: On Tuesday, Delaware became the 11th state to allow marriage equality. And just a few days ago, Rhode Island adopted a similar measure, which followed victo... |
6530 | Boise woman receives first allogeneic transplant in Idaho. | Doctors have performed Idaho’s first allogeneic stem cell transplant. | true | Health, Leukemia, Idaho, Boise | Boise television station KTVB reports that Idaho residents fighting serious diseases like lymphoma, multiple myeloma and leukemia previously had to leave the state to get the potentially life-saving treatment, which involves transplanting stem cells or bone marrow from a donor into the patient’s body. On Thursday docto... |
28569 | Iceland has virtually removed the occurrence of Down syndrome from their population through abortion. | What's true: Icelandic doctors are required to tell expectant mothers about the availability of a screening test that can indicate (among many other things) the presence of Down syndrome in their fetus. What's false: The Icelandic government does not mandate abortions for mothers whose unborn children test positive for... | mixture | Medical | On 14 August 2017, CBS News ran a segment for their program “CBSN: On Assignment” in which correspondent Elaine Quijano traveled to Iceland to report on that country’s disappearing incidence of Down syndrome: Since prenatal screening tests were introduced in Iceland in the early 2000s, the vast majority of women — clos... |
2910 | Danone to sue New Zealand's Fonterra over baby formula recall. | French food group Danone said it would sue wholesale dairy exporter Fonterra and stop buying products from the New Zealand firm following a contamination scare that sparked the recall of infant milk formula across Asia. | true | Health News | The world’s largest yoghurt maker did not say how much money it was seeking, but it has previously said it wanted full compensation for what it says were 350 million euros ($476 million) in lost sales following the recall of the company’s Dumex and Karicare infant formula products. Danone buys a range of dairy ingredie... |
7894 | One in four Americans told to stay home as Congress nears $1 trillion stimulus. | Nearly 1 in 4 Americans were under orders to close up shop and stay at home on Saturday, as lawmakers in Washington neared a deal that could pump a record $1 trillion into the economy to limit the economic damage from the coronavirus. | true | Health News | New Jersey’s governor followed four other states - California, New York, Illinois and Connecticut - that have imposed unprecedented restrictions to slow the spread of infections, which have risen exponentially. Governors in other states urged citizens to avoid large gatherings, even if restrictions were not in place. “... |
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