Millions of children return to classes in England, Wales and Northern Ireland today amid fears of a similar spike in Covid cases to Scotland – as 23% of parents of secondary pupils will insist their children wear masks. Mail Online, 6 September 2021. A Mail Online article claimed on Monday that “23% of parents of… Read More »
Harrison Ford was frozen in The Empire Strikes Back because, unlike Carrie Fisher and Mark Hamill, Ford had only signed on for two films. After the success of Raiders of the Lost Ark, Lucas didn’t think Ford would return for the 3rd Star Wars film, but left him frozen just in case. The post Harrison… Read More »
Sitting Bull had become responsible for an extended family that had grown rather large. As a result, his mother requested that he restrain himself in battle and not be as aggressive so as to prevent major injury or death. He did as she asked, but his hard-earned reputation as a fierce warrior suffered when the… Read More »
Here are this week’s interesting historical photos. For part 302, click here. 1. Bulgarian soldier giving his best battle cry for the camera, ca. 1916. 2. Harry S. Truman as a captain during WWI, 1918. 3. Pyramid of German helmets in celebration of victory, Grand Central, New York, 1919. 4. Florence Thompson, the Migrant Mother…… Read More »
Facebook users have been sharing an apparently fake transcript of a legal hearing in which the mayor of Calgary, in Alberta, Canada, supposedly calls Covid-19 “a hoax”. Fact checkers in the US can find no record of this hearing. The mayor, Naheed Nenshi, also told them it did not take place. Moreover, in his other… Read More »
A post on Facebook, shared hundreds of times, wrongly claims there are more than 850,000 registered sex offenders in the UK. There are far fewer than 850,000 registered sex offenders in the UK In May, the National Crime Agency published an estimate which said there could be “between 550,000 and 850,000 people in the UK… Read More »
No healthy child is believed to have died from Covid in the UK. MailOnline, 3 September 2021. The online edition of the Daily Mail claimed that no healthy children have so far died from Covid-19 in the UK. This is not true. A recent study of Covid deaths in England alone, just up to the… Read More »
A widely shared post on social media includes a video featuring the former Pfizer scientist Mike Yeadon. The video includes lots of misleading or incorrect information about the Covid-19 vaccines. We haven’t fact checked every single claim, but some of the false claims include misleading information about the effects of spike protein production after vaccination,… Read More »
Here are 5 things you should know. 1. Plan B is not a pill that causes abortions, it’s a pill that prevents pregnancies. Plan B and abortion pills are not the same. Plan B, or Levonorgestrel, is a dose of hormonal birth control taken within 72 hours of unprotected sex to prevent pregnancy, which is…… Read More »
