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This story barely meets the criterion. It discusses costs, and does a good job of emphasizing that most treatments that reduce the appearance of wrinkles have only temporary effects and need to be repeated indefinitely, often at great cost. However, it lacks specific figures about the cost of the new laser device. The ...
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The news release provides no discussion of costs. While a soccer ball isn’t terribly expensive, the boys involved in this study weren’t casually kicking the football around the back yard or the neighborhood soccer pitch; they were “aspiring professionals who played as much as nine hours a week,” according to the study’...
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"In the race for the Republican nomination for attorney general, former Hillsborough County prosecutor Pam Bondi continues to contrast her courtroom experience with the political experience of opponents Jeff Kottkamp and Holly Benson. One of the distinctions Bondi makes is that while Kottkamp, the lieutenant governor, ...
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The beginning of April 2019 also marked the premiere of the third television iteration of The Twilight Zone. This time, Rod Serling’s mid-century television classic series was rebooted with producer Jordan Peele at the helm.On the day the first two episodes were released — “Nightmare at 30,000 Feet,” a remake of the cl...
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On 16 August 2017, Joshua Witt, 26, posted on his personal Facebook page a photograph of a bloody wound on his left hand, which he alleged was the result of being attacked by a man with a pocket knife who assumed he was a neo-Nazi. Since sharing his story with his Facebook friends, the post has gone viral and his story...
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The story clearly notes that the device, known as Orbera, “is not covered by insurance and costs $8,000.” The story does not address benefits in any kind of meaningful way, much less offer any quantification of the benefits. Instead, the story tells readers what the “objective” of Orbera is. It also offers an anecdote ...
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On or around 3 December 2015, the web site Huzlers published an article titled “17 Year-old Does ‘Condom Challenge’ With Used Condom Gets Herpes,” saying: The “Condom Challenge” craze has claimed another victim. 17 year-old Hector Cruz contracted herpes after using a used condom he found in his fathers bedroom. Most re...
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The [INSTITUTION] budget office said the funds are for vaccines, treatment and protective equipment. The request was immediately slammed by Democrats as insufficient and came as coronavirus fears were credited with Monday’s 1,000-plus point drop in the Dow Jones Industrial Average and are increasingly seen as a potenti...
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The price of the chocolate milk product used in this study is not mentioned, even though it is being sold to schools. The release says that high school football players who drank the chocolate milk had higher scores after the season on nine of 36 measures in a computer-based concussion evaluation, and that among the pl...
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Age-related macular degeneration, or AMD, is the leading cause of vision loss among seniors, gradually eroding crucial central vision. There are different forms but more than 5 million people worldwide, and a million in the U.S., have an advanced type of so-called “dry” macular degeneration that has no treatment. First...
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Not applicable. Costs were not discussed, which is understandable at this early stage of research which the story emphasized. Adequate explanation of the results from a tiny study. There was no discussion of potential harms. The story could have at least emphasized that not much can be known about potential harms after...
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On July 10, 2019, we examined a claim holding that Google was “scrubbing” its search results of any pictures showing [OFFICIAL] Bill [PERSON] together with convicted sex offender and billionaire/financier Jeffrey Epstein. While this rumor was false (Google’s search results were not notably different than those of Yahoo...
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According to a Nashville Government Web Site, police officer Danita Marsh was “ambushed and severely wounded in a callous and cowardly attack on October 27, continues to slowly recover at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.” The attack occurred in 2006 while she was responding to a domestic violence call. The Metropo...
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In March 2020, U.S. [OFFICIAL] faced widespread scrutiny for various aspects of his administration’s response to the economic and public health crisis triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic. Among other points of criticism was his repeated insistence on referring to the disease as the “Chinese virus,” despite widely-accept...
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During the summer of 2019, remarks by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg prompted a wave of reports, mainly by right-leaning and pro-life websites, that the social network founder had “admitted” to having banned pro-life advertising in the lead-up to Ireland’s May 2018 referendum on abortion, and even that he had “bragged” a...
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The epidemic has given China’s ruling Communist Party one of its sternest challenges in years, constrained the world’s second largest economy and triggered a purge of provincial bureaucrats. With China’s streets, restaurants and flower markets bare, a miserable Valentine’s Day was expected on Friday. Japan confirmed it...
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"Some city employees would get a New Year’s gift under a proposal by Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett to soften Act 10’s effect on their pocketbooks. After losing a legal fight, the city is complying with Gov. Scott Walker’s 2011 collective-bargaining law and will begin deducting pension contributions from those workers not...
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The story does not mention the cost of adult male circumcision outside of a clinical trail. It is also not clear whether this is a reimbursible procedure for adult males in the USA when no acute problem exists. The story appropriately describes the design of the two similar studies and provides both absolute and relati...
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"In critiques that zipped from blog to blog and bounced around on Facebook and Twitter, critics of Gov. Scott Walker are jumping on a dog-related change in the governor’s new two-year budget. Walker’s budget plan for 2011-’13 amends a state statute (174.13) that allows dog pounds to sell -- for $1 -- unclaimed stray ca...
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“We’re just sicker,” said Rebekah Gee, who until January was the health secretary for Louisiana and now heads Louisiana State University’s healthcare services division. “We already had tremendous healthcare disparities before this pandemic – one can only imagine they are being amplified now.” Along with New York and Se...
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"There was no discussion of costs but we acknowledge that costs would be difficult to discuss in this story. They might have discussed the comparative costs of general vs. spinal vs. regional anesthesia or the potential downstream costs of anesthesia adverse effects. The benefits associated with the use of anesthesia w...
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"During a debate in the hotly contested Arkansas [INSTITUTION] race, Republican Tom Cotton and Democratic incumbent Mark Pryor squared off over the question of Medicare and how it would be affected by the [HEALTH_POLICY], the health care law sometimes called [HEALTH_POLICY]. A moderator kicked off the exchange by notin...
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On 21 March 2016 the web site Worldwide Science Stories published a post reporting that the discovery of an “alien mummy” in an Egyptian pyramid had been confirmed by archaeologists speaking under condition of anonymity: The mysterious creature was between 150 and 160 centimeters, and was found by archaeologist near La...
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The island state of just 200,000, located south of the equator and half way between Hawaii and New Zealand, declared a measles epidemic late in October after the first deaths. The government has identified 1,644 suspected cases of measles, more than doubling over the past week, with deaths rising to 20 from six, it sai...
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The World Health Organization said it expected the nine-month outbreak to continue spreading though the east of Democratic Republic of Congo, and announced plans to expand vaccinations in the coming weeks once a new treatment by Johnson & Johnson is approved. The WHO is already using another experimental vaccine made b...
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The company earned $728 million, or 67 cents per share, in the fourth quarter. That compared with $827 million, or 74 cents per share, in the year-earlier quarter, when Lilly took charges for asset impairments and restructuring. “Company sales were stronger than thought, but a lot of that upside came from drugs that ar...
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Although not approved for the use described in the story, cost information about at least one of the compounds described is available and could have been mentioned. While the story provided relative improvement in exercise capacity, it would have been clearer if it had presented absolute improvement. This might have ma...
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“Sales are going really well, and getting better every month,” said Jen Osmun, who started the business with her husband, a former plumber, after he was injured in an accident. Most customers at Grassy Plain Vape & Smoke buy electronic cigarettes to help them quit smoking tobacco, but a growing number are referred by m...
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"After virtually ignoring millionaire Rick Scott and his unconventional campaign for governor, Attorney General Bill McCollum launched a full attack on May 18, 2010, criticizing Scott for his role as a former CEO of a national hospital chain that bilked state and federal health care programs.Scott, 57, has been running...
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Food and Drug Administration officials said they are trying to determine whether the chemical — over-sulfated chondroitin sulfate — was purposely or inadvertently added during manufacturing in China. “We don’t know whether the contaminant was introduced intentionally or by accident,” said Dr. Janet Woodcock, director o...
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Although specific, numerical costs are not mentioned, the story does a good job of reflecting on the kinds of costs that school districts would incur if they went to a later start time. The story is specific about the average sleep advantages of a later start time among teenage participants in the 18 studies evaluated....
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"The cover of ""The Male Brain"" by psychiatrist Louann Brizendine, known for her bestseller ""The Female Brain."" REUTERS/Broadway Books So says the author of the new book “The Male Brain,” psychiatrist Louann Brizendine, known for her bestseller “The Female Brain.” “The way Mother Nature made us, the man’s job on the...
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Thousands of suspected drug traffickers and users have been killed in the campaign that Duterte launched soon after he won election in 2016. [OFFICIAL] Leni Robredo, who was elected separately to the president, and recently served a brief stint as the president’s drug “tsar”, said vast quantities of the highly addictiv...
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The nonprofit group Mental Health America ranked Nevada 51st among states and the District of Columbia in seven categories of youths at risk, the Las Vegas Sun reported. Factors in the group’s September review included psychological and emotional disturbances, substance abuse disorders, major depressive episodes and ch...
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The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that officials are urging at-risk people, such as recreational drug users and the homeless, to get vaccinated. The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services said Wednesday that the state has recorded 414 cases in 35 counties since September 2017, mostly in the southeast part ...
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"Days before the Super Bowl, fake news articles circulating on Facebook claimed that a National Football League lawyer named Dan Goodes was shot dead in a ""gangland-style execution"" hours after blowing the whistle on the ""rigged Super Bowl."" ""NFL lawyer, who claimed Super Bowl is ‘rigged,’ found dead,"" stated the...
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Charlie Rowley, 45, fell ill in June near Salisbury, England, after coming into contact with the Soviet-developed nerve agent that was used months earlier to attack former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter. Rowley, Skripal and his daughter survived, but Rowley’s partner Dawn Sturgess, who was also exposed, di...
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The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services says it’s working with the Macomb County Health Department to investigate the illnesses at McLaren Macomb Hospital in Mount Clemens. The departments say six of the seven Legionnaires’ cases have been reported at the hospital since mid-September. Both agencies are inv...
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The state’s Division of Public Health Services says the person is an adult from Sullivan County who developed respiratory symptoms and had chest imaging showing evidence of lung injury. This person reported recent vaping of nicotine products. The division said the individual was hospitalized, but has since been dischar...
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Despite the claims made in online versions, a question supposedly revealing of psychopaths was not authored by a “famous American psychologist,” nor does it come from “a genuine psychological test”: This is a genuine psychological test. It is a story about a girl. While at the funeral of her own mother, she met a guy w...
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"In mid October, long-serving Rep. Don Young, R-Alaska, provoked a firestorm with a series of comments about suicide. It’s a significant issue in his home state: In recent years, Alaska has experienced suicide at roughly twice the national rate. The controversy began when Young spoke to more than 100 students and staff...
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As the U.S. death toll from the virus passed 1,000 people, hospitals and government authorities in New York, New Orleans and other hot spots have grappled with a rush of cases and a shortage of supplies, staff and sick beds. In Detroit, which had no cases about two weeks ago, the number had grown to 868 confirmed cases...
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"Republican U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, running for governor, said she wouldn't hesitate to trim state spending to cope with a looming state revenue shortfall of up to $17 billion. ""We should start cutting across the board now in our state agencies,"" she said during the GOP gubernatorial debate Jan. 14. ""We have...
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Boreal toads are tough to track. They blend in well with their environment, they’re mostly active at night and they’re not vocal. The only sound they make is a little squeak males use to keep other males away, the Standard-Examiner reports ( ). That makes it hard for biologists to pin down how many toads live in Utah —...
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The anti-abortion website LifeSite published a story containing a headline that said the CEO of the biotech company StemExpress admitted in court to “selling beating baby hearts, intact baby heads.” That headline was not only false, but it presented a security risk to a witness in a criminal trial, according to a repor...
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"Sen. [PERSON] of Texas says the federal government is about to give away control of the internet. Really? A shift has been in motion, we found, yet not a handoff of all things web. As of October 2016, that is, contractual federal oversight of the California nonprofit that’s managed website domains since 1998--the Inte...
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Bayer acquired Monsanto this year for $63 billion. “If we can settle nuisances at some point where the defense costs in preparing cases are higher than potential settlement amounts, we will of course consider it from an economic standpoint,” CEO Werner Baumann told reporters when asked whether there was any scenario in...
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In 2014, we collected this post from Facebook: This little critter is called an ASP. Believe it’s a caterpillar. KILL IF YOU COME ACROSS ONE. THESE ARE PAINFUL WHEN YOU ARE STUNG BY ONE, WILL SEND YOU TO HOSPITAL, CAUSING NERVE PAIN/DAMAGE AND ARE POSSIBLY POISONOUS. THESE ARE BECOMING MORE N MORE SEEN. SO WATCH YOUR L...
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Republicans on the GOP-majority [INSTITUTION] Environment and Public Works Committee mostly had praise for Andrew Wheeler, who has served as the agency’s acting head since Scott Pruitt’s resignation in July amid ethics scandals. The committee chairman, Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., called Wheeler “very well-qualified” to...
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"Bill McCollum tried to put his tougher-than-expected Republican primary for governor into perspective during a discussion with reporters in Tallahassee on July 29, 2010. Here's the upshot: Rick Scott has spent millions of dollars crafting a negative lie-filled television campaign that has distorted voters' impressions...
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The Minnesota Board of Animal Health says the mosquito-borne disease was confirmed last week in a 3-year-old miniature horse in Pine City. Officials say it’s the first equine case of West Nile in Minnesota this year. The stallion had no record of being vaccinated against the disease. A mare and a foal also living on th...
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"Comedian Sarah Silverman’s liberal leanings are almost as well-known as her raunchy style. Her 2008 pro-[PERSON] video ""The Great Schlep"" attracted 2.2 million views on YouTube; a follow-up from 2012 attracted another 1.1 million views. Recently, a reader forwarded us this shareable meme from Silverman’s feed at Who...
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The governor, who is also a pediatric neurologist, worked to comfort victims of Friday’s shooting and their families, while helping coordinate the massive government response. He discussed the shooting with [OFFICIAL] in a private phone call, stood shoulder to shoulder with other elected officials at a news conference ...
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"In a round of interviews following the Wisconsin [INSTITUTION] recall elections, the Republican Party’s national chairman framed the results as a clear victory for Gov. Scott Walker. Republicans lost two seats but retained [INSTITUTION] control, despite a major -- and expensive -- effort from Democrats and their suppo...
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On 14 January 2015, World News Daily Report published an article titled “Australia: 600 Pound Woman Gives Birth to 40 Pound Baby.” (The claim resurfaced when it was reproduced by the generally satirical site NYMeta on 4 June 2015.) According to the original claim, an unnamed “single mother” in Australia weighing 600 lb...
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Unlike the HealthDay story, this one mentions cost. It says that the drug in question, Fosamax, “costs around $10 per month in the U.S.” Although, of course, the real cost effectiveness would be determining costs in a population that had routine current screening plus the medicine. Then one could determine the relative...
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Food and Drug Administration staff said it was possible the cases were associated with the Baxter drug Suprane. But they also said each of the patients was being treated with other drugs that may cause cardiac arrest. The label for Suprane, known generically as desflurane, already carries warnings about other cardiac p...
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The proposed regulation from Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar would eliminate behind-the-scenes discounts among drugmakers, insurers and go-betweens and instead require that they be paid directly to consumers when they buy their medications. The idea is to do away with a hidden cost seen as contributing to...
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"While the [INSTITUTION] bickers over Zika funding, U.S. Sen. [PERSON]’s campaign says Democratic challenger U.S. Rep. Patrick Murphy has been playing partisan politics over the issue in the House. The same day the [INSTITUTION] failed to approve emergency public health funding to deal with Zika for the third time in t...
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An image shared on social media in September 2020 purported to reveal that international trade data showed dozens of nations bought COVID-19 testing and diagnostic materials more than two years before the coronavirus pandemic was declared and SARS-CoV-2, the responsible virus, was first identified. The above image was ...
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There’s no discussion of the potential cost of stem cell infusions generally or of CAP-1002. The news release says rats injected with stem cells: It gives no numbers to give readers an idea of how large these benefits were. It doesn’t tell us how many animals were involved in the study and what the comparator was (base...
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Oly Ilunga, who opposed using the vaccine developed by U.S. pharmaceutical giant Johnson & Johnson, resigned as minister on Monday after being bumped off the Ebola response team. The World Health Organization recommended the two-dose shot to complement a vaccine by U.S. drugmaker Merck, which has proved highly protecti...
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"As tends to happen in Wisconsin politics these days, the battle over re-opening the state is headed to the courts. The state’s Republican-led Legislature filed suit April 21, 2020, asking the Wisconsin Supreme Court to stop Democratic Gov. Tony Evers’ administration from extending the stay-at-home order into late May....
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On 5 November 2018, Erin Elizabeth’s medical conspiracy blog Health Nut News “reported” a seemingly disturbing story out of the Netherlands with the headline “Hundreds of birds dead during 5G experiment in The Hague, The Netherlands.” It turned out that Elizabeth’s article was the wholesale regurgitation of a series of...
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The family of Madelyn Linsenmeir alleges in the federal lawsuit filed in western Massachusetts that law enforcement ignored the 30-year-old mother’s repeated pleas for medical help before her October 2018 death caused by an infected heart valve. “Madelyn’s illness was treatable. Her life could have been saved; her suff...
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"A headline warns consumers about triclosan, an ingredient in some consumer products: ""If you are using this toothpaste .... throw it away immediately!"" Facebook users flagged the Nov. 28 story on Shared This as being potentially fabricated, as part of the social network’s efforts to combat fake news. The article cou...
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"There’s a reason they don’t call it Factbook. The latest example of a misleading factoid gone viral casts restrictive gun policy as a backfiring failure, with two countries as case studies. On one side of the post is Honduras, with a population of 8.2 million people and a government that ""bans citizens from owning gu...
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On 16 July 2017, alternative health blogger Erin Elizabeth reported on her web site Health Nut News that Justine Ruszczyk (who primarily used her fiance’s surname, Damond), a 40-year-old Australian woman living in the U.S. who was shot and killed in mid-July 2017 by Minneapolis police, was among a growing list of holis...
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"Radio and TV political commentator Glenn Beck has spent weeks detailing what he says is a web of [PERSON] administration officials with socialist or communist ties. And Exhibit A in the Beck argument has been Van Jones, [PERSON]'s so-called green jobs czar (his actual title was special adviser for green jobs at the Co...
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"When [OFFICIAL] announced that Central Intelligence Agency Director Leon Panetta would replace Robert Gates as Defense secretary, Rep. Marcy Kaptur took the the pages of ""Politico"" to offer him advice. In suggesting that the Defense Department needs to cut back on its use of petroleum products, the Toledo Democrat s...
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There’s no discussion of cost, even to mention that statins are relatively inexpensive these days and are mostly generically available. To its credit, the article does mention the cost of a calcium scan. We learn that “anywhere from 50 to 200 healthy people need to take a statin daily to prevent a single heart attack f...
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"To build opposition to the health care bill, Republicans have been saying it would expand coverage of abortion. To back up that claim, House Republican Leader John Boehner sent a ""GOP Leader Alert"" that said [OFFICIAL] was doing that to fulfill a campaign promise. ""During his quest for the presidency, now-[OFFICIAL...
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"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...
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This email from the dawn of the millennium made its way to our inbox in 2003: This rather shocking photo was snapped in November 16th by a spectator at the collegiate power lifting championships at Pennsylvania State. The unfortunate competitor, who expressed a plea to remain anonymous, remembered to surgeons that he w...
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A rural herder in Siziwang county was diagnosed with the disease in a local hospital, according to a statement released by the Inner Mongolian health commission. Prior to the diagnosis the herder had been active in an area where plague sources had been identified, it said. The person is in a stable condition after trea...
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The legend of the wordy government memo regulating the sale of cabbage is often held up as a telling illustration of needless verbosity and a prime example of the sort of pointless government spending everyone is in favor of seeing cut from the bone: Pythagorean theorem: 24 words The Lord’s Prayer: 66 words Archimedes’...
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During the COVID-19 coronavirus disease pandemic of 2020, many Americans first became acquainted with the phrase “social distancing,” a term referring to the practice of people avoiding gathering in groups and maintaining physical space between themselves in public settings (in order to prevent the spread of COVID-19)....
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After United States [OFFICIAL] controversially posed for photographs at a Washington, DC church while he held up a Bible, the following photograph of [PERSON] juxtaposed with Adolf Hitler in a purportedly similar pose appeared and quickly went viral:We encountered the image primarily in comments sections, typically wit...
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"You may have seen some recent Facebook posts that claim Dr. Denis Mukwege, a renowned doctor from the Democratic Republic of Congo, said he resigned from the Congolese COVID-19 response team because he was asked to falsify COVID-19 case and death numbers. Mukwege did resign, but it wasn’t for those reasons. Mukwege is...
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The release referred to a combination of a new vaccine targeting the p53 gene and a pembrolizumab biosimilar. Pembrolizumab is currently used as a chemotherapy drug but no mention of costs were given for this drug or the combination treatment of the vaccine with pembrolizumab. According to GoodRX, four vials of 50 mg K...
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During his 2016 presidential campaign, Republican candidate [PERSON], a billionaire real estate developer, vowed that if elected he would forgo the $400,000 annual presidential salary. So far as president [PERSON] has stuck to that promise, handing over checks every three months for various projects overseen by differe...
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The nonpartisan [INSTITUTION]ional Budget Office has estimated the legislation would save Medicare $345 billion over seven years, partly because some seniors would no longer have to skimp on costly medicines, and they’d stay healthier. A separate estimate from nonpartisan analysts at the Department of Health and Human ...
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Neither the cost, composition, or dosing of the intervention — a probiotic preparation of strains of a Lactobacillus and Bifidobacterium — is provided. The release notes that the 6-month study yielded the following results: The group randomized to receive the probiotic, on average, “didn’t return to hospital as quickly...
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"The release of a video showing NFL running back Ray Rice striking his now-wife in an Atlantic City, N.J., casino elevator revived conversations about domestic violence on the Sunday shows. On the Sept. 14, 2014, edition of CNN’s State of the Union, Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., shared an anecdote from her time as a pro...
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The relationship between the worlds of art and commerce has long been an uneasy one. Artists, beholden to commercial concerns, have often found themselves having to compromise both the quality and the quantity of their work in order to live up to contractual obligations. The music, publishing, and film industries are r...
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Bay Area hospitals took in more than 180 injured passengers after the plane came in too low to the airport on July 6, hitting a sea wall and losing its tail and landing gear as it skidded down the runway. The bulk of patients went to San Francisco General Hospital and Stanford Hospital & Clinics. Hospitals say, however...
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Sanders’ visit Thursday night to Duke University in Durham included his usual push for free college, universal health care and a $15-per-hour minimum wage. Sanders had pushed those same ideas in his unsuccessful Democratic president campaign in 2016. He said people should be able to live with dignity and security in th...
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The Star Tribune reported Tuesday that health officials have interviewed eight of 15 patients in Minnesota who have been hospitalized for severe respiratory illnesses with confirmed links to vaping. Rich Danila of the Minnesota Department of Health says all eight inhaled THC, the compound in marijuana that gives it its...
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An entreaty to help save the life of a victimized child who had been raped by an AIDS-positive attacker began circulating as a cell phone text message in June 2010. At that time, the message being zinged from phone to phone represented the rapist being sought with a photograph of an African American male bearing gold t...
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The drug is still in early experiments, but it would have been nice to give readers some indication of how the eventual price of this drug might compare to available antidepressants. We will give the story a satisfactory rating because it specifies that 7 of 10 patients given SAGE-547 reported significant improvement i...
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"The lack of a surgeon general -- the federal government’s top public health spokesperson -- has become a point of contention as the public panics about Ebola. Sen. [PERSON] said [OFFICIAL] is to blame for the fact that the position hasn’t been filled. ""Look, of course we should have a surgeon general in place,"" Cruz...
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Arizona voters approved a 2010 law creating the medical marijuana program and Brnovich says providing funding for drug addiction services from medical marijuana program money is legal if the legislative action satisfies conditions required under the Arizona Constitution’s provision protecting voter-approved laws. An op...
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“Washington’s Vision” (reproduced as the example below) is a narrative presented as the 1859 reminiscences of 99-year-old Anthony Sherman, who was supposedly present with George Washington’s army at Valley Forge during the winter of 1777 and overheard Washington tell an officer that an angel had revealed a prophetic vi...
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On 29 October 2014, the World News Daily Report web site published an article positing that a baby had born in India with two distinct brains encased within a single head: Mumbai| Doctor Jagadhish Parsa, who assisted yesterday in the birth of a baby born with a rare malformation causing him to have two distinct brains ...
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On 1 March 2017, a Reddit user posted a picture of two lions bearing manes and a caption indicating that five “lionesses in Botswana have grown manes, developed a deeper roar to defend off rivals and even fight for territory”: This is a factual statement. Though rare, the phenomenon of female lions growing manes and ex...
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"[OFFICIAL] downplayed academic projections that COVID-19 deaths could rise higher than previously expected this summer. [PERSON] was asked about new projections multiple times on May 5, the day he traveled to Arizona to tour a mask factory. ABC’s David Muir asked [PERSON] about a model by Johns Hopkins University that...
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"Health insurance has emerged as a defining issue in the Georgia [INSTITUTION] race, and Republican incumbent Sen. David Perdue declared that there is one angle where he can’t be attacked. ""I’ve always believed in protections for Americans with preexisting conditions. Period,"" Perdue tweeted Aug. 18. ""Anyone who say...
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Cuomo also extended an order closing businesses and schools by two weeks until at least May 15 in coordination with other states in the region, and added details to face-mask requirements, saying New Yorkers should wear them on buses, taxis and trains. New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy, speaking at a separate news briefi...
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The American Civil Liberties Union and Planned Parenthood filed the lawsuit on behalf of abortion providers seeking to overturn the Alabama law that would make performing an abortion at any stage of pregnancy a felony punishable by up to 99 years or life in prison for the abortion provider. The only exception would be ...
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In a TV message on Monday evening watched by more than 27 million people, Prime Minister Boris Johnson ordered people to stay at home, told nearly all shops to close and banned social gatherings including weddings and baptisms. However, public transport in London was busy during the morning rush hour and the streets we...
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