Photos of a swimming pool, shared on Facebook, show swimmers divided by plastic screens during a class. A caption next to the post says: “Please someone tell me this is not real.” The images are genuine, taken from a French news broadcast recorded in January 2022, reporting on the reopening of a thermal spa. The… Read More »
An Instagram post shares a picture of a headline which says: “Study of 145 countries finds sharp rise in virus transmission and death AFTER introduction of Covid vaccines”. It is accompanied by a caption which outlines the details of the study and says that people weighing up the decision to have a Covid-19 vaccine may… Read More »
A post on Instagram claims that challenging someone who is not wearing a face mask could mean you are committing an criminal offence according to equality and anti-discrimination laws, and could be fined up to £9,000. The post is styled to resemble an official notice from the government, including a government logo and a heading… Read More »
A video reel shared to Instagram on 23 January claims that the CEO of Pfizer, Albert Bourla, has not had a Covid-19 vaccine because he doesn’t want to “cut the line”. A watermark on the video indicates it was taken from TikTok, but the original account which posted the video now appears to have been… Read More »
A fake tweet purporting to be from an Australian health official has been shared on Facebook and Instagram. The tweet, which has been made to appear as though it was written by New South Wales chief health officer Dr Kerry Chant, reads: “Great result from the children’s [Covid-19 vaccine] roll-out,only 3 deaths linked and 106… Read More »
Here are this week’s interesting historical photos. For part 320, click here. 1. Young boys harassing the Horace Baker family, the first African American family to move into the all-white Delmar Village neighborhood of Folcroft, Pennsylvania, 30 Aug. 1963. 2. American soldiers at mass in the rubble at Cologne Cathedral, March 1945. 3. Tibetan skeleton…… Read More »
It is no secret that I have a love for personal development books. I am actually infamous for it. The books I will list here are books I have read, and I know they are worth reading. There is nothing worse than getting a book and going through the motivation and drive to read it,… Read More »
An Instagram post shares the headline of an online article which claims: “COVID [sic] Shots Could Cause ‘Crippling’ Neurodegenerative Disease in Young People, MIT Scientist Warns”. There is no evidence to support this. The article quotes Dr Stephanie Seneff, a senior Research Scientist at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory in America, as… Read More »
