Science in August 2023
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Thursday, August 31, 2023
- Fact Check: 78,000 People Are NOT Under The Water In Great Britain -- Old Video Clips Are Misrepresented
- Fact Check: 'Survey' Does NOT Prove Vaccinated Over '2X More Likely To Get COVID Than the Unvaccinated'
Tuesday, August 29, 2023
Monday, August 28, 2023
Friday, August 25, 2023
- Fact Check: Vitamin K Shots Do NOT 'Poison' Babies -- They Protect Newborns From Life-Threatening Events
- Fact Check: Lyme Disease Is NOT HIV/AIDS
Thursday, August 24, 2023
- Fact Check: mRNA NOT Added To All Childhood Vaccines Without Regulatory Reapproval -- Any Changes Require Vaccines To Be Treated As New Product, Re-Evaluated
- Fact Check: Fauci Did NOT Declare That All 'Unvaccinated Citizens Must Be Locked Down This Winter'
- Fact Check: German Government Does NOT Have Study Figures Showing Pfizer COVID Vaccine Safer Than Placebo -- But Shot Still Safe, Effective
Wednesday, August 23, 2023
Tuesday, August 22, 2023
- Fact Check: Hurricane Dora DID Affect Winds During Maui Wildfires, Even Though It Was Hundreds Of Miles Away
- Fact Check: Maui Wildfires Are NOT Linked To Green Lasers Recorded Over Mauna Kea, Hawaii, On January 28, 2023
Monday, August 21, 2023
- Fact Check: Cleveland Clinic Study Did NOT Prove 'Absolute Linear Correlation' Between COVID-19 Vaccines And Infection Risk
- Fact Check: NO Evidence That Honeybee Exposure To Aluminum Grew By 800 Percent In 2022
Friday, August 18, 2023
- Fact Check: NASA In Hebrew Does NOT Translate To 'To Deceive'
- Fact Check: Photo Does NOT Show 2023 DEW Attack On Hawaii -- It's A 2018 SpaceX Launch From California
Thursday, August 17, 2023
- Fact Check: NO 'Secret CDC Report' Shows Hundreds Of Thousands Of Children 'Died Suddenly' Following Rollout Of COVID-19 Vaccines
- Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show Fire Crawling On Cement In Maui -- It's Ohio In 2022
Wednesday, August 16, 2023
- Fact Check: John D. Rockefeller Was NOT Responsible For Widespread Arrests Of Alternative Medicine Supporters
- Fact Check: COVID-19 Vaccine-Related 'Turbo Cancers' Are NOT Real -- Thus NOT 'Contagious' Or 'Behaving Like A Bioweapon'
- Fact Check: Explosion Was NOT Caused By Laser From Sky -- A Transformer Blew In Macul, Chile
Tuesday, August 15, 2023
- Fact Check: Rail Gun Physics Does NOT Prove The Earth Is 'Missing Curvature'
- Fact Check: FDA Did NOT Approve Ivermectin As COVID-19 Treatment
- Fact Check: Babies DO Need Hepatitis B Vaccine -- Not Just 'Hookers & Drug Users'
Monday, August 14, 2023
- Fact Check: NO Evidence Hawaii Wildfires Caused By 'Direct Energy Weapon Assault'
- Fact Check: Nattokinase NOT A Proven COVID 'Spike Protein Detox' NOR Has US Even Set Dosages -- It's A Food Supplement
- Fact Check: Standing Trees Do NOT Prove Maui Wildfires Were False Flag Operations
Thursday, August 10, 2023
Wednesday, August 9, 2023
- Fact Check: US Map Image Does NOT Show An Actual 2023-24 Snow Forecast -- It's A 2014 Creation From A Satirical Site
- Fact Check: Sun DOES Heat Earth Through The Vacuum Of Space
- Fact Check: pH Of Soda Is NOT Toxic, Does Not Alter pH Of Human Body
- Fact Check: VAERS Data Is NOT 'Crystal Clear' Proof That COVID-19 Vaccines Are Killing '1 Person Per 1,000 Doses'
Tuesday, August 8, 2023
- Fact Check: Pfizer Employees In Australia Did NOT Receive Different COVID-19 Vaccines Than Public
- Fact Check: Africans Were NOT Known To Inhabit North America Before European Contact
Monday, August 7, 2023
- Fact Check: Downward Motion Of Object On International Space Station Does NOT Indicate An Anti-Gravity Hoax
- Fact Check: German Weather Station Did NOT Show Map On Fire With High Temperatures
- Fact Check: NO Evidence Eating Cayenne Pepper Repairs DNA Directly Or Kills Cancer In Humans
Friday, August 4, 2023
- Fact Check: Methane Emitted By Bison Does NOT Compare With Levels Expelled By Cows
- Fact Check: Study Does NOT Show 'Vast Majority Of Humanity' Vaccinated For COVID-19 By 'Shedding' Of Vaccine From Vaccinated To Unvaccinated
Wednesday, August 2, 2023
- Fact Check: US Doctor Did NOT Represent World Health Organization At COVID Summit In Brussels -- She Was Criticizing WHO
- Fact Check: Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant Does NOT Face A Chornobyl-Style Disaster From Water Shortage As Of July 2023
- Fact Check: NO Proven Link Between 'Athlete Cardiac Arrests' And COVID-19 Vaccine -- Many Non-Cardiac, Non-Vaccine-Related Cases Cited In Goodsciencing List
- Fact Check: WEF Founder Klaus Schwab's Daughter Nicole Did NOT Say 'Permanent Climate Lockdowns Coming -- Whether You Like It or Not'
- Fact Check: Clapping Hands Does NOT Bring 'Instant Relief' For Heel Pain
Tuesday, August 1, 2023
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