A number of Facebook posts have shared a screengrab of a (since deleted) tweet claiming that the deputy prime minister and justice secretary Dominic Raab said he watched Peppa Pig “with his parents when he was young”, even though the children’s TV show first aired in 2004 when he would have been 30. The tweet… Read More »
Here are this week’s Life Pro Tips. 1. If your grandma or mom knits/crochets you something, keep it. Even if you don’t wear it, trust me, one day you won’t care what’s cool, you’ll just wish you had that scarf that your mom spent days making for you. They are irreplaceable. 2. HR can’t be…… Read More »
A Facebook post claims that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), says that hand gel “causes cancer”. The post uses what appears to be a code for the FDA, by writing F/D/apple symbol. The post also says that this has followed “daily obsessive use for nearly two years by the masses”. Although it is… Read More »
An article, shared on Facebook, claims Pfizer has changed the formula of a Covid-19 vaccine for children to include a medication that “stabilises people suffering a heart attack”. The article says the vaccine for five to 11-year-olds includes tromethamine, which is associated with a number of potentially serious side effects. Tromethamine was recently added to… Read More »
A photo on Facebook purporting to show a protest in Vienna is going viral. The caption says: “Go Vienna! Vaccinated and unvaccinated standing together for what is right!” Although there have been protests in Vienna against new Covid-19 restrictions recently, the photo in the post is actually a snippet of a larger one taken in… Read More »
Facebook posts claim that a man was arrested for putting fake social distancing arrows in an Ikea to create a “labyrinth” with no exit. While Ikea did ask customers to socially distance when it reopened after lockdowns in 2020 and 2021, this story (unsurprisingly) is meant as a joke. Other versions of the same joke… Read More »
A post on Instagram claims a Stanford study has shown face masks are ineffective at blocking Covid-19 viral particles. We have written about the study cited before. The author was not affiliated with Stanford University and the paper was strewn with basic errors, misrepresenting legitimate research on the effect of face masks. The study has… Read More »
A post on Facebook, showing a screenshot of a tweet, says: “Today I learnt that there is such a thing as the tasselled wobbegong shark and I need to share it with you all”, accompanied by a picture of a peculiar-looking sea creature. Several marine biologists tweeted in response that the picture did not show… Read More »
