A post on Facebook shares several pictures of long white vapour trails, which it claims are “chemtrails, geo engineering all the sky”. This is false. As we’ve said before, lines like these are not evidence of the chemtrails conspiracy theory. They are contrails, formed when water vapour from aircraft engines freezes at high altitudes. The… Read More »
An image of a ship sailing past Tower Bridge on the River Thames in London has been shared on Facebook, claiming to show: “A 282 year old East India trading company ship [returning] to London for the first time since 1787.” This photo has been circulating on social media for years, with several posts claiming… Read More »
Pictures purporting to show private jets parked up at the “Davos 2022 Climate Change conference” have been shared hundreds of times on Twitter, as well as Facebook. There are several problems with this claim. First of all, the pictures in the post are not from the most recent meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF),… Read More »
A Facebook post claiming that vials of Moderna’s Covid-19 vaccine contained traces of pesticides is false. The story in the post is a screenshot of a website called Real Raw News and the article was originally published on 12 May 2022, claiming vials of the vaccine had been recovered during a raid on a warehouse. … Read More »
A post on Instagram claims that the current monkeypox outbreak is a side effect of the Covid-19 vaccines. There is no evidence this is true. What does the post say? The post includes two pictures from the cartoon Scooby-Doo, showing the unmasking of an ape labelled “monkey pox” to reveal a syringe labelled “C-19 vaccine… Read More »
A bloated stomach causes feelings of discomfort and tightness in the abdomen. While the triggers for bloating are different for everyone depending on your body type, one thing is for sure, there are several ways to instantly start feeling better physically and mentally. There are a wide variety of reasons why your stomach may be… Read More »
For close to a century, many doctors termed Oklahomans mentally unstable, and professionals admitted mentally ill patients to the Eastern State Hospital in Vinita, Oklahoma. Even when mental illness was considered taboo, doctors deemed it best to build a mental hospital. At the time, people attributed mental illness to moral failures or ill decisions. Even…… Read More »
Here are this week’s shower thoughts. 1-5 Shower Thoughts 1. Being in the sun for only two hours makes you realize how incredibly resilient plants are. 2. In gaming, repeatedly crouching when you first see someone is a sign of friendship, but repeatedly crouching after you killed them is a sign of disrespect. 3. Resident…… Read More »
We asked our regular contributors through e-mail What is the most interesting statistic you know? We got many interesting responses. Here are some of them. We have just copied and pasted their responses, not editing them in any way. 1. Of the 30 fastest 100-meter sprint times, 21 were run by athletes who tested positive for…… Read More »
