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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

”Global warming started to run out of steam over two decades ago… Half of the apparent global temperature increase from January 1910 to January 2000 is due to administrative adjustments.”

Chris Morrison, Daily Sceptic

“...Seven and a half years have passed since there was any trend in global warming at all” If global warming was caused by human emissions, temperature would rise at a steady rate

Christopher Monckton, Watts Up With That

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Latest Claim Reviews – HEALTH

"Researchers from the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) “assembled monkeypox strains”"

Natalie Winters, The National Pulse

"A South African scientist made a “huge medical breakthrough” by successfully removing HIV from a sperm cell in a lab"

Facebook users, Facebook

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Latest Article Reviews - CLIMATE

Wall Street Journal op-ed by Steven Koonin publishes misleading claims about how climate change influences Greenland ice melt

Wall Street Journal

Human-caused climate change is already accelerating Greenland’s melting and is predicted to continue to accelerate it in the future. In addition to Greenland, most glaciers aroun...

PragerU video on climate change repeats a range of misleading claims by Steven Koonin

"The author of this video, Dr. Steven Koonin, says he is following the scientific reports published by the UN and US government, but by subtly changing wording and choosing not to ..

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Latest Article Reviews - HEALTH

CNN article accurately reports an increased risk of heart attack from cannabis use in young people, but lacks context on difference between absolute and relative risk

"Yes, it’s true that the data suggest a “doubling” of risk for cardiac problems in cannabis users, but the article confuses “absolute” risk and “relative” risk. Those..

Washington Times article by Robert Malone and Peter Navarro relies on inaccurate and unsubstantiated claims about virus evolution, vaccine immunity, and COVID-19 vaccine safety

Washington Times

"This article has inaccuracies throughout with a clear view to push an anti-vaccine agenda. The picture depicting a skull with eyes and nose made of coronaviruses in the shape of t..

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Latest Insight articles – CLIMATE

Yes, plants need carbon dioxide. No, that doesn’t mean it’s harmless.

“The benefit[s] of increasing CO2 concentrations for plant growth are increasingly being outweighed by the negative impacts, especially of global warming. This is true for natura...

Water scarcity in a changing climate: will drought get worse with warming?

"The thing to remember is that drought is a very complex phenomenon. For one, drought is not just precipitation. Drought is also soil moisture and streamflow. This is an important ..

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Latest Insight articles – HEALTH

Shedding light on LinkedIn’s enforcement of health misinformation policies: A pilot study

Summary of findings The career- and business-oriented social media platform LinkedIn has been absent from the public conversation around the topic of health misinformation, as comp...

Following the misinformation URL trail to identify key spreaders: A case study on Twitter

Introduction As social media platforms try to tackle the spread of misinformation, their first challenge is the reliable identification of which content breaches their misinformati...

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News & Events

More than 80 fact-checking organizations call on YouTube to tackle misinformation

“The examples are too many to count. Many of those videos and channels remain online today, and they all went under the radar of YouTube’s policies, especially in non-English s...

Science Feedback invited to speak at European Commission CONNECT University, Digital for our Planet

Emmanuel Vincent, PhD, Founder & Director of Science Feedback was invited to participate in the European Commission CONNECT University Summer School 2021, Digital for our Plane...

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