A joke from TikTok about wearing masks in Zoom meetings is being shared on Facebook, where some users seem to believe that it is real. The Facebook post includes a screenshot of an email, which says: “Team, I am writing you all today to inform you of a new protocol for our staff zoom meetings.… Read More »
[The SNP’s] Covid prevalence stats are just not true Guido Fawkes blog, 7 January 2022. The Guido Fawkes blog has published an article claiming that the Scottish National Party (SNP) used data on the prevalence of Covid-19 that isn’t true. In fact, both sides correctly cited their chosen figures, but the Guido Fawkes article used… Read More »
Does your digestive system seem off lately? Or has it been like that for a while? Have you been experiencing feelings of stress or burnout? If the answer to both these questions is yes, it could be the stress that’s driving your digestive system out of whack. You might also be wondering how you can… Read More »
It was recently reported by a number of online news outlets, including the Daily Star, Mirror, Irish Mirror, Bristol Live and Edinburgh Live that an asteroid bigger than Big Ben is set to “crash into the Earth’s atmosphere” on 11 January. In reality, the asteroid, named 2013 YD48, will not crash into the Earth’s atmosphere.… Read More »
The government has announced that asymptomatic people who test positive for Covid-19 on a lateral flow device (LFD) test will no longer need to have a confirmatory PCR test. It said that this is a “temporary measure” while rates of Covid-19 are high across the UK, and added that while rates remain high “the vast… Read More »
“If we look at the statistics, we see that economic inequality is down in this country.” Boris Johnson, Boris Johnson, 5 January 2021. At Prime Minister’s Questions, Boris Johnson claimed economic inequality is falling. However, the data available shows a more complex picture. Income inequality is often measured using something known as the Gini coefficient,… Read More »
A post on Instagram claims that “masks do nothing but limit oxygen and increase risk of bacteria and illness”, warning parents not to put masks on their children. The post contains a quote from Dr Brian Lamb, a doctor based in Pittsburgh, US, who was interviewed by a local news station in June 2020 about… Read More »
A screenshot shared a number of times on Facebook claims an Egyptian man removed all his own teeth and made it into jewellery “to express his love” for his girlfriend. The post includes photos of a man who appears to have no teeth and a chain with pendants that look like teeth. However, the post… Read More »
Now might seem like a crazy time to launch a business, but in fact, there’s never been a better time. In the United States, more businesses have been launched this year than ever. Data from the US Census Bureau shows about 1.4 million new startup applications filed with the government through September 30, 2021, compared… Read More »
