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Science Feedback is a worldwide network of scientists sorting fact from fiction in science based media coverage. Our goal is to help readers know which news to trust.

Latest Claim Reviews – CLIMATE
“there has not been a long-term distinctive change in sea level rise rates in the last 120 years”
Pierre L. Gosselin, Kenneth Richard, NoTricksZone, Watts Up With That?
- 15 Jan 2021
A young whizkid [...] invented a device that cuts 50% off an average home’s power bill
Anonymous, HOVERH
- 27 Dec 2020
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Latest Claim Reviews – HEALTH
"“COVID-19 immunity likely lasts for years”"
Neel V. Patel, MIT Technology Review
- 22 Jan 2021
"There are many reasons to not vaccinate, including vaccine toxicity; “Vaccines don’t prevent transmission”; "Vaccinated kids are not as healthy as unvaccinated kids""
Steven Baker, Facebook
- 21 Jan 2021
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Latest Article Reviews - CLIMATE
Video interview of Ian Plimer at Sky News falsely claims that a new study announces an incoming ice age, partly based on an incorrect Daily Mail headline
Sky News
"This video is chock full of false and misleading information, and presented in a way to make the correct scientific information seem like a farce. For example, the direct link bet..
- 20 Jan 2021
Guardian article on Arctic methane emissions claiming “a new climate feedback loop may have been triggered” lacks important context
The Guardian
"This article’s claim that methane deposits in the Arctic Ocean are starting to be released, awakening a “sleeping giant”, cannot be supported by the limited observational da..
- 30 Oct 2020
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Latest Article Reviews - HEALTH
New York Post article makes speculative, unsupported claim that mutation could enable the virus causing COVID-19 to evade handwashing and mask-wearing
New York Post
"The preprint that the article focuses on actually says nothing about the most egregious claim made in the article: that the virus is evolving to get around hand-washing, masks, et..
- 08 Oct 2020
Telegraph article describing the hypothesis that face masks can variolate a population receives mixed reviews on its scientific accuracy
The Telegraph
"The Telegraph headline is obviously misleading but the subheading is accurate. Masks don’t give immunity; rather, the argument is that infections are milder or asymptomatic and ..
- 24 Sep 2020
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Latest Insight articles – CLIMATE
The potentials and limitations of tree plantings as a climate solution
the international conversation on tree plantings as a solution to reducing CO2 emissions in the atmosphere and mitigating the rise in global surface temperature is mixed, with judg...
- 11 Jun 2020
“Planet of the Humans” documentary misleads viewers about renewable energy
Instead of presenting life cycle analyses for solar and wind generation or quantifying electric vehicle emissions that could inform viewers, Planet of the Humans misleads with broa...
- 04 May 2020
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Latest Insight articles – HEALTH
“Plandemic: Indoctornation” video rehashes debunked claims and conspiracy theories about the COVID-19 pandemic and vaccines
Plandemic is a pseudo-documentary produced by American filmmaker Mikki Willis, whose first instalment was published in May 2020. Featuring an interview with anti-vaccination activi...
- 20 Aug 2020
Computing Forever interview with Dolores Cahill contains numerous inaccuracies about COVID-19 and vaccines
This video, first published on 11 May 2020, features an interview between Dave Cullen, also known as Computing Forever on YouTube, and Dolores Cahill, a professor at University Col...
- 22 May 2020
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News & Events
Science Feedback is awarded an IFCN Development Grant to build database on sources of misinformation
Science Feedback is very pleased to be awarded a development grant from the Poynter Institute’s International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN). This grant aims to further innovation ...
- 24 Aug 2020
Building an Open-source Database of Misinformation Sources on COVID-19
As the novel coronavirus continues to spread throughout the world, so does false or misleading information about the pandemic online. The World Health Organization (WHO) Director-G...
- 02 Apr 2020
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