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Sun wrong to claim lockdown doubled suicide rates
Evidence suggests suicides did not increase after the first lockdown. Read
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Letter to MHRA is filled with false Covid-19 claims
These include falsehoods that all people who die after a positive Covid test are registered as having died of Covid and that the Covid vaccines are experimental. Read
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Health
Viral video includes lots of false claims and half truths
These include claims that there is a blanket approach to DNACPRs on elderly and disabled people, that the Covid-19 vaccines are experimental and genocidal, and that the Covid-19 pandemic was planned. Read
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Health
New York Post’s use of old India gas leak picture causes confusion
The paper used a picture of scenes from a gas leak in 2020, not Covid-19 in 2021. Read
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Prince William is not leading a global depopulation agenda
Agenda 21 is a sustainable development plan published by the UN in 1992, not a “global depopulation plan”. Read
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Health
The term ‘double mutants’ doesn’t mean much
This term has been used a lot in reference to the so-called ‘Indian variant’ of Covid-19 which has multiple mutations, and so do many of the other variants. Read
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The PM’s brother did not join Dyson days after tax texts
Jo Johnson joined Dyson’s university, not the company, in February, but the texts were sent in March. Read
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Economy, Business & Finance
Boris Johnson repeats misleading council tax comparison
The Prime Minister claimed that band D average council tax is higher in Labour areas than Conservative ones. But band D rates are not a fair comparison. Average tax in Labour areas is lower. Read
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Health
This map in the Daily Express uses all the wrong numbers
No UK regions reported zero “new daily cases” of Covid-19 on the day before. Read
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Claims 163 million people searched ‘how to hit a woman so no one knows’ are untrue
The researcher behind the claim has publicly stated that her research methods were flawed. Read
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