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Commentary in The Australian by Ian Plimer relies on false claims to make its...
SCIENTISTS’ FEEDBACK SUMMARY This commentary by Ian Plimer, published by The Australian, criticizes a political leader’s stance on climate change, but makes a number of verifiably false claims about...
View ArticleClaim that human civilization could end in 30 years is speculative, not...
SCIENTISTS’ FEEDBACK SUMMARY This article at IFLScience describes a report produced by an Australian think tank. The report attempts to describe a possible worst case climate scenario in 2050. The...
View ArticleArticle claiming vaccines cause autoimmunity and autism due to fetal DNA...
SCIENTISTS’ FEEDBACK SUMMARY This article by Vaccine Impact, published on 19 May 2019 and shared more than 13,000 times, reproduces an open letter written by Dr. Theresa Deisher to legislators about...
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Financial Post commentary jumps to unsupported conclusions in claiming...
SCIENTISTS’ FEEDBACK SUMMARY This op-ed published by the Financial Post, written by Ross McKitrick, describes a presentation by University of Colorado Boulder researcher Roger Pielke, Jr. The article...
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Popular article in The Independent accurately summarizes June heat in Europe
SCIENTISTS’ FEEDBACK SUMMARY This article in The Independent covers the release of June monthly average temperature data for Europe—which shows it was the warmest June on record by a significant...
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NBC News story accurately covers research on two millennia of climate history
SCIENTISTS’ FEEDBACK SUMMARY A recent study working with a global database of paleoclimate records found that no previous warm or cool period in the last 2,000 years—including the Roman Warm Period...
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Washington Examiner op-ed cherry-picks data and misleads readers about...
SCIENTISTS’ FEEDBACK SUMMARY This op-ed article published by The Washington Examiner (and republished by Zero Hedge) claims to provide evidence that climate models are not valid scientific tools able...
View ArticleThe Atlantic provides accurate summary of research on gut microbiome,...
SCIENTISTS’ FEEDBACK SUMMARY This article, published by The Atlantic, discusses the potential of maintaining a healthy gut microbiome by consuming fresh produce (also called whole foods), based on...
View ArticleWashington Post article provides accurate and insightful report on recent...
SUMMARY This article published in the Washington Post reports on the recent and sudden surge in vaping-related illnesses in the United States that have left many people hospitalized – notably many...
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Letter signed by “500 scientists” relies on inaccurate claims about climate...
SCIENTISTS’ FEEDBACK SUMMARY This letter presenting a short list of claims about climate change boasts a list of “500 scientists and professionals” who have co-signed it. The claims contradict or...
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Telegraph article on climate change mixes accurate and unsupported,...
SCIENTISTS’ FEEDBACK SUMMARY This article in The Telegraph attempts to discuss the science of observed global warming and the factors responsible. However, mixed in with some accurate factual...
View ArticleScience Feedback accredited by Poynter’s International Fact-Checking Network
Science Feedback has received accreditation from the International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN) at The Poynter Institute. Previously accredited based on its Climate Feedback platform, Science Feedback...
View ArticleNew York Times op-ed claiming scientists underestimated climate change lacks...
SCIENTISTS’ FEEDBACK SUMMARY This op-ed by author Eugene Linden, published under the headline “How Scientists Got Climate Change So Wrong”, argues that climate scientists have long underestimated...
View ArticleDaily Mail article misleads with clickbait headline claiming cowpox-derived...
SUMMARY This Daily Mail story, published in early November 2019, claims in its headline that scientists have created “a new cowpox-style virus that will cure EVERY type of cancer”. This report appears...
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Ian Plimer op-ed in The Australian again presents long list of false claims...
SCIENTISTS’ FEEDBACK SUMMARY This op-ed in The Australian by Ian Plimer, titled “Let’s not pollute minds with carbon fears”, makes many claims: that polar ice is not melting, that human emissions of...
View ArticleNew York Times accurately reports vaccine-derived polio outbreaks caused by...
SUMMARY This New York Times article reports on the growing number of vaccine-derived polio cases, particularly in Africa, based on a report by the Independent Monitoring Board of the Global Polio...
View ArticleABC article effectively illustrates important climate trends for Australian...
SCIENTISTS’ FEEDBACK SUMMARY This interactive article at ABC allows readers to enter their year of birth and see how temperatures have changed in their lifetime in relatable ways. It also describes...
View ArticleViral New York Post article perpetuates the unfounded claim that the virus...
SCIENTISTS’ FEEDBACK SUMMARY This article, published in the New York Post on 22 February 2020, went viral on Facebook within days and had received more than 13 million views and 100,000 shares at the...
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Article in The Sun misrepresents Antarctic discovery and misplaces it on map
SCIENTISTS’ FEEDBACK SUMMARY This article in The Sun describes the chance discovery of a small island in Antarctica’s Pine Island Bay, which seems to have appeared in the last decade. But the article...
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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-General Tedros Adhanom...
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