The Earth is not flat – Full Fact
Mar 3, 2023 · A post on Instagram claims that balloons spotted in the sky above North America last month are evidence that satellites are “fake”. A caption on the post says: “Earth is flat and satellites are fake”. This is not true. Man-made satellites are real.Amongst other things, they are the basis for the GPS system that is used by mobile phones.. And the Earth is round.
World Trade Center 7 didn’t collapse for ‘no apparent reason'
Sep 16, 2021 · A nearby building did collapse on 9/11 despite not being hit by a plane, due to a complex process of structural failures caused by fire.
Fenbendazole is not a proven treatment for cancer in people
Oct 1, 2024 · What is fenbendazole? Fenbendazole is a drug that is used to treat parasitic infections in animals. It works by disrupting how parasites manage energy, which leads to their death.It is licensed for use in livestock and domesticated animals.. Lab-based studies using human cells have shown that fenbendazole is able to kill cancer cells in various ways.It has also been shown to reduce both the ...
Red Cross documents do not undermine official Holocaust deat
Feb 28, 2019 · Red Cross documents do not support the false claim that far fewer than six million Jews were murdered during the Holocaust. An anti-Semitic viral article posted on Facebook claimed that Red Cross documentation showed 271,000 people died in Nazi concentration camps, rather than the widely accepted figure of around six million.. As “evidence”, the article includes a 1979 document which it ...
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How does a Covid-19 test work? – Full Fact
Sep 24, 2020 · The common cold will not produce a positive result on a Covid-19 diagnostic test.
Video clips don’t show Buzz Aldrin admitting he never went to th
Apr 6, 2023 · A Facebook reel, played more than 800,000 times, claims to show former NASA astronaut Buzz Aldrin admitting he had never been to the Moon.. The video consists of three separate clips, each appearing to show Mr Aldrin—the second person ever to set foot on the Moon—explaining how his expedition to the Moon had been staged or had never happened at all.
Buzz Aldrin didn’t ‘admit’ he never went to the Moon – Full Fact
Jan 16, 2023 · A video viewed more than 42,000 times on Instagram claims to show former astronaut Buzz Aldrin as he “admits [the] Moon landing was fake”.. The clip shows Mr Aldrin—the second person to ever set foot on the Moon—being interviewed by a young child and responding to the question: “Why has nobody been to the Moon in such a long time?”. During his response Mr Aldrin says: “I think I ...
Covid-19 is not ‘a lie’ – Full Fact
Nov 22, 2022 · Evidence of Covid-19. According to the World Health Organisation: “Covid-19 is the disease caused by a new coronavirus called SARS-CoV-2. WHO first learned of this new virus on 31 December 2019, following a report of a cluster of cases of ‘viral pneumonia’ in Wuhan, People’s Republic of China.”
Is Labour right to claim there’s a £22 billion ‘black hole’ in the ...
Oct 24, 2024 · What is the ‘£22 billion black hole’? In a statement in the House of Commons on 29 July, Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves said that a Public Spending Audit conducted by the Treasury following the general election had found that the new government had “inherited a projected overspend of £22 billion”. She described this as a “£22 billion hole in the public finances” and ...