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Met Police has not launched an investigation into the Covid-19 vaccine programme
Posts on Facebook falsely claim that the Metropolitan Police is investigating the Covid-19 vaccine programme.
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Boris Johnson’s PPE figures don’t tell the whole story
The Prime Minister claimed during PMQs that the UK is now capable of producing 80% of its own PPE.
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Japan has never enforced a Covid-19 vaccine mandate
An Instagram post claims that Japan has dropped Covid-19 vaccine mandates even though it has never enforced one.
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An Instagram post underestimates Covid-19 deaths among younger people
Just over 17,000 people under 65 died of the disease in England and Wales, up to the end of November 2021.
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PM misleads on employment figures, again
The number of people in work is about 600,000 lower than it was before the pandemic.
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The Nuremberg Code doesn’t state that mask mandates are a war crime
The Code, which was created in response to human experimentation in Nazi concentration camps, does not mention masks.
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Argos isn’t selling microwaves for £1.78
A Facebook post falsely claims Argos is selling microwaves for £1.78 after it broke a contract with Samsung.
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The Covid-19 vaccines don’t have ‘negative efficacy’
Data from the UKHSA vaccine surveillance report cannot be used to estimate effectiveness correctly—as the report itself makes clear many times.
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Dialling 55 during 999 call won’t automatically send police to your location
A Facebook post incorrectly claims that dialling 55 when on a 999 call will automatically send the police to where you are without you having to speak.
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Cheetahs race greyhounds, sometimes
While some cheetahs have not performed when raced against greyhounds, there’s no evidence this is because they consider themselves better than greyhounds.
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NASA hasn’t ‘just’ hired 24 theologians to study future discovery of aliens
The space agency funded a study programme for 24 theologians which ended in 2017.
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A Covid-19 patient on BBC News is not a ‘crisis actor’
He was genuinely ill at the time of the interview, and later added the words “crisis actor” to his Instagram profile as a joke.
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