Daily Archives: January 26, 2022
NHS poster about Bell’s palsy and vaccines is fake
A picture of a fake poster claiming to have been produced by the NHS warning that the Covid-19 vaccine “causes Bell’s palsy” has been circulating on Facebook. The poster bears the NHS and UK government logos in the top corners and states “PUBLIC HEALTH WARNING” above a picture of a person who appears to have… Read More »
Parents mostly against face masks in classrooms
“A recent poll by parent voice charity Parentkind found that nearly two thirds of parents of secondary school children are not in favour of masks in the classroom.” MailOnline, 20 January 2022. “A recent poll by Parentkind of 2,000 parents representing almost 4,000 primary and secondary school children found that almost two thirds of secondary… Read More »
Dan Wootton and David Davis make incorrect claims about Covid-19 deaths
“While the media talks a lot of the 150,000 deaths, perhaps they should have been talking about the number of people who died ‘of Covid’ not ‘with Covid’. That was just 17,371 up to the end of quarter three 2021.” Dan Wootton, 17 January 2022. A clip of Dan Wootton on GB News, which has… Read More »
WTF Fun Fact – Fried Brain Sandwich
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In 1987 Fisher Price released the PXL2000 toy…
In 1987 Fisher Price released the PXL2000 toy, ultra low tech, video camera that recorded monochromatic, low quality, video on audio cassettes. A commercial flop at the time, its now highly prized by film makers and artists for the uniquely grainy, antique, mysterious look it creates on film. The post In 1987 Fisher Price released… Read More »
Operation Alaska, Finalaska or New Finland…
One of the cofounders of Alcoholics Anonymous…
In 2014 when impoverished Ivory Coast cocoa…
In 2014 when impoverished Ivory Coast cocoa farmers were asked what they were growing was made into, they didn’t know. The farmers knew cocoa was some type of food but they had never heard of or tasted chocolate until reporters brought them a chocolate bar to try. The post In 2014 when impoverished Ivory Coast… Read More »