A Facebook post claims that former Chelsea manager Frank Lampard said football body FIFA “hates” Manchester United’s Cristiano Ronaldo and is “corrupted”. The post, versions of which have been shared tens of thousands of times across Facebook, claims Mr Lampard said “I do not know how Ronaldo won even 5 Ballon d’ors in the era… Read More »
Gone are the days of plugging away one set at a time on a stand-alone strength machine. Thankfully, the focus is moving away from single-joint exercises to moving the body three-dimensionally. After all, we live in a three-dimensional world, so the body needs to move in all ranges of motion, not just one. Designing a… Read More »
Ray Bradbury wrote the first draft of Fahrenheit 451 on a typewriter in UCLA Library’s basement that cost 10 cents for 30 minutes. 9 days and $9.80 later he had a short story titled ‘ The Fireman’ that was later expanded into Fahrenheit 451. The post Ray Bradbury wrote the first draft… appeared first on… Read More »
An article from the blog, The Exposé, claims that fully vaccinated people accounted for nine in 10 Covid-19 deaths in Scotland over the past four months. Screenshots of the article’s headline, including this claim, have also circulated on social media. That’s broadly accurate. Fully vaccinated people have accounted for around eight in 10 Covid-19 deaths… Read More »
The biggest political story of the last month has been a series of reports on parties allegedly held late last year in Downing Street and Westminster at a time when strict Covid-19 restrictions were in force. Much of the coverage so far has been based on political journalists’ off-the-record sources, so we don’t yet know… Read More »
A Facebook post claims that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has recalled 12,787 drugs and that “1,270 drugs every year that were formerly approved get recalled because they were subsequently deemed unsuitable. These drugs were pre tested for between 2-10 years.” While it’s true that the FDA has recalled just under 1,000 drugs… Read More »
“We’ve done almost double the percentage [of boosters] of any other European country” Boris Johnson, 15 December 2021. During Prime Minister’s Questions, Boris Johnson said that the percentage of the UK population who have received a booster vaccine was double that of any other European country. This is not true. It appears the Prime Minister… Read More »
