Was the devastating temblor that struck Turkey on February 6, 2023 actually a human-caused earthquake triggered by a weapon from an ionospheric research program called HAARP, in response to the Turkish president's move to block an expansi
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Truth or Fiction?→ Meteor Observed Over Scotland, Northern Ireland
A September 14 2022 tweet from the account @latestinspace purportedly showed the trajectory of a low-flying “large meteor” observed that night in Scotland and Northern Ireland: BREAKING : Large meteor spotted burning up over Scotland and
Truth or Fiction?→ ‘This Fukang Meteorite is 4.5 Billion Years Old’
The journey of a rare type of meteorite to Earth has continued online, albeit with the details fudged over time. In this case, the Fukang Meteorite (named after the Chinese town where it was discovered) has become a recurring meme online. In many itera
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Something Hitting Moon Was NOT Caught On Video — Work Of VFX Editing TikTok Star
Did something big, an asteroid or a missile, crash into the moon or explode and blow right through it -- and was this event caught on camera in both Texas and California as it happened? No, none of that's true: These two videos were origi
Truth or Fiction?→ ‘Albedo,’ ‘Bright Darkness,’ and ‘Snowglow’
On December 1 2021, the Facebook page “Vellum and Vinyl” shared a screenshot of the following Tumblr post, discussing “albedo” — a measurement of reflectivity and the “bright darkness” caused by snowfall after
Truth or Fiction?→ ‘Zabol Priestess with a Golden Eye’
An August 4 2021 retweet imploring archeologists not to remove a golden eye from an unusually tall woman’s skeleton found in Zabol, Iran circulated across platforms, an allusion of sorts to the “2020 bingo” meme: Do. Not. Remove. T
Truth or Fiction?→ Did the CDC Issue Zombie Apocalypse Guidelines in 2021 Because of a Nostradamus Prophecy?
On March 3 2021, a number of Fox affiliates shared an article claiming that due to a purported 2021 Nostradamus prophecy, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had created “just in case” guidance for a “zombie apocalypse̶
Truth or Fiction?→ ‘Mad Max is Set in 2021’
In late 2020 a set of memes began spreading, all of which contained wording to the effect of, “I don’t want to be [a pessimist,] but Mad Max was set in 2021″: It wasn’t clear where the combination of image and phrasing above a
Snopes→ World’s Space Achievements a Bright Spot in Stressful 2020
Astronauts blasted into orbit from the U.S. for the first time in nearly a decade, three countries sent spacecraft hurtling toward Mars, and robotic explorers grabbed rocks from the moon and gravel from an asteroid for return to Earth.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Joe Biden Did NOT Endorse Donald Trump In Edited Video
Did Joe Biden, the U.S. Democratic presidential candidate, say, "We cannot win this election. We can only re-elect Donald Trump"? No, not entirely: The video making the rounds has been edited to remove the rest of the sentence to imply that Bi
Climate Feedback→ Commentary in The Australian by Ian Plimer relies on false claims to make its case
SCIENTISTS’ FEEDBACK SUMMARY This commentary by Ian Plimer, published by The Australian, criticizes a political leader’s stance on climate change, but makes a number of verifiably false claims about climate science and energy systems as
Truth or Fiction?→ Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Facts Meme
On March 14 2019, the Facebook page Occupy Democrats shared a meme (archived here), making a number of claims about U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York): Next to a photograph of Ocasio-Cortez, the meme’s text read: In high school she
Climate Feedback→ Popular “Friends of Science” video promoted by Youtube presents long list of climate myths
SCIENTISTS’ FEEDBACK SUMMARY This video of a talk by author and speaker Steve Goreham, posted by the YouTube channel “Friends of Science” has been viewed over 250,000 times and has been widely promoted by Youtube recently. In it, G
FactCheck.org→ The Whoppers of 2018
Summary For the fourth year in a row, Donald Trump dominates our list of the whoppers of the year. Before he entered politics as a presidential candidate in 2015, we had never singled out one person as the most egregious teller-of-falsehoods in these y
FactCheck.org→ Scientist Schools Congressmen on Climate
During a recent hearing on the role of innovation in addressing climate change, several Republicans made faulty claims about the climate, past and present: Alabama Rep. Mo Brooks falsely claimed river sediment deposits and rocks falling from cliffs ca
Snopes→ NASA Confirms Existence of Earth’s Second Moon?
While a discovery from 2016 did reveal the presence of a small asteroid trapped in Earth’s orbit, this object cannot be classified as a moon.
FactCheck.org→ Smith Spins NASA Funding
Rep. Lamar Smith said that, after national security agencies, “NASA received the most favorable budget request from the Trump administration.” True, but President Donald Trump’s 2018 proposal would still cut NASA’s budget by a