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 »

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 »

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 »