Daily Archives: October 18, 2021
No evidence Tesco is sacking 4,300 workers
A post shared 29,000 times on Facebook claims that Tesco is sacking 4,300 staff and relates this to the use of self-service checkout machines. There is no evidence that this is happening. Tesco also confirmed that this was false. The post may refer to the fact that in August 2019, Tesco said it would be… Read More »
Nigel Farage understates renewable energy generation
“On a good day wind energy can bring us 24%, 25% of our electricity needs… back in September there was a three week period when renewables produced between 2% and 3%.” Nigel Farage, 14 October 2021. During his show on GB News, former UKIP and Reform UK leader Nigel Farage was discussing renewable energy and… Read More »
NASA didn’t paste a picture of the Earth into photos from the moon
A video on Instagram suggests that a number of images of the Earth from space have been altered or “faked” by NASA. The video, taken from a much longer interview with conspiracy theorist Dave Murphy, presents four images produced by NASA which he claims are proof that photos and film taken by the space programme… Read More »
The Joe Rogan podcast misused English Covid-19 data
On 12 October 2021, Alex Berenson, an American journalist appearing as a podcast guest on the Joe Rogan Experience, used data from the now replaced Public Health England (PHE) to claim that people over 40 are more likely to catch Covid-19 if they are vaccinated. This is not true, as we have said when previous… Read More »
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The oPhone makes it possible…
The oPhone makes it possible to send smells electronically. In 2014, the technology was introduced when a person in New York sent a sniff of their breakfast (bread, orange juice, and strawberries) to Paris where colleagues sent a sniff of their meal in return (champagne and macaroons). The post The oPhone makes it possible… appeared… Read More »
David Bowie considered becoming a Buddhist monk…
David Bowie considered becoming a Buddhist monk, and studied for a few months in 1967 before a Lama told him he should follow music instead. His ashes were scattered in Bali in accordance with Buddhist rituals. The post David Bowie considered becoming a Buddhist monk… appeared first on Crazy Facts. Source