Ivermectin and COVID – Who gets to decide the truth?
The latest fake COVID cure being touted by the right-wing is Ivermectin. Almost every credible medic is strongly advising – don’t use this.
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False memories and Fake News
Study reveals that exposing people to fake news creates false memories if that fake news panders to their preexisting biases and beliefs.
Bias: ‘Arabic Numerals’ Should not be Taught in School
Is the poll that supposedly finds bias concerning arabic numerials a meaningful measurement of anything at all, or does it grossly mislead?
Why are we susceptible to Fake News?
We know that others can be prone to believeing Fake News. How can we be confidence that we also have not done exactly the same?
Are there Fact Checking standards for fact checkers?
Trump might slag off the media as the “enemy of the people”, but that never deters him from happily using them as a soapbox for his creative interviews that are commonly devoid of facts. After his recent Washington Post interview, they found it necessary to publish some fact-checking a couple of days ago … “We’re … Read more
BBC reporting on Climate Change
In the not too recent past the BBC has managed to make a complete hash of their climate change reporting. Last August 2017 Al Gore was in the UK promoting the sequel to “An Inconvenient Truth”. The BBC quite rightly interviewed him on the BBC’s Radio 4 flagship program “Today”, a slot that literally millions tune into … Read more