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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

CO₂ is not the cause of our current warming trend; Arctic sea ice has expanded in recent years; Polar bears’ population is growing and is not threatened by climate change; CO₂ is good for plant life

Patrick Moore, The Epoch Times

“Believing CO2 controls the climate is pretty close to believing in magic.”

Richard Lindzen, Climate Change is Crap

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Latest Claim Reviews – HEALTH

"Solfeggio frequencies can regenerate the body, remove toxins, remove negativity"

Facebook users, TikTok users, Facebook, TikTok

"“Papaya seeds contain compounds that naturally kill parasites”"

Social media users, Facebook, TikTok

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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

Different parts of the planet warm more quickly than others. That doesn’t mean climate change isn’t happening.

If you’re even a casual consumer of climate news, you probably know that some parts of the globe are warming more rapidly than others. Scientists have known for years, for instan...

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...

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Latest Insight articles – HEALTH

Germany-based network of websites and Facebook accounts amplify clickbait content to monetize web traffic via Google AdSense and e-commerce

SUMMARY This investigation, which took place between May and August 2022, shows that a network of German- and English-language Facebook pages are using the platform to build an onl...

What you need to know about the current monkeypox outbreak: transmission, symptoms, treatments, etc.

Photo by CDC/Cynthia S. Goldsmith at Public Health Image Library (PHIL) The ongoing monkeypox virus outbreak began in May 2022, when the U.K. notified the World Health Organization...

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News & Events

Introducing the Climate Science Desk, Science Feedback’s new portal to help journalists verify climate claims

Supported by the Climate Misinformation Grant Program from the International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN) at the Poynter Institute, Science Feedback is launching the Climate Scienc...

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...

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