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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
Helicopters are using chemicals made from fossil fuels to defrost wind turbines; frosted wind turbines are responsible for blackouts in Texas; “the reason your power is/was out is wind energy's fault.”
Facebook users, Facebook
- 17 Feb 2021
“The 58 year net gain of global temperature is zero. We are simply in a cyclical, normal ebb and flow of temperature.”
Facebook users, Facebook
- 05 Feb 2021
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Latest Claim Reviews – HEALTH
"“Health officials push pregnant women to get covid shots, despite known risks”"
Anonymous, Children’s Health Defense
- 01 Mar 2021
"“Habitual use of vitamin D supplements was associated with a 34% lower risk of COVID-19 infection”; “This is an observational study so causation cannot be established”"
Rhonda Patrick, Instagram
- 22 Feb 2021
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Latest Article Reviews - CLIMATE
Breitbart article makes numerous false claims about the impacts of climate change, based on Global Warming Policy Foundation post
Breitbart
"The article’s scientific credibility is very low. The author cherry-picks data, makes broad generalizations and characterizations based on incomplete or flimsy reasoning, and re..
- 12 Feb 2021
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
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Latest Article Reviews - HEALTH
Misleading Wall Street Journal opinion piece makes the unsubstantiated claim that the U.S. will have herd immunity by April 2021
Wall Street Journal
"The article’s claim that the U.S. is near herd immunity rests on two numbers: 1) the detection of infections by testing (claimed to be 10 – 25 percent) and 2) the infection fa..
- 26 Feb 2021
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
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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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