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Multiple fact‑checking organizations have found that social‑media ads claiming Dr. Ben Carson discovered a “blue honey” or CBD‑gummies cure and that he endorsed products are fabricated and described a...
Wikipedia can be a highly useful, transparent, and often accurate starting point for research, but it is not a substitute for academic, peer‑reviewed literature when scholarly rigor is required . Univ...
Recent reporting finds that a notable share of prominent MAGA-aligned accounts on X/Twitter are operated from outside the United States, and researchers and platform actors have long estimated nontriv...
Current public-health and peer-reviewed sources say most post‑COVID‑vaccine reactions are short lived — injection‑site pain, fatigue, fever and headache that usually resolve in days — and that serious...
Evolution is both an observable fact—populations change over time—and a powerful explanatory theory tying genetics, fossils, and observed changes into a coherent framework (sources: ScienceDaily, The ...
Israel’s internal intelligence database — reported by The Guardian and partners — indicates around 83% of Palestinians killed in Gaza were civilians as of May 2025, based on a classified tally of name...
Claims that Ben Carson won a Nobel Prize are false: multiple fact‑checks state he has never received a Nobel Prize . Misinformation tying Carson to Nobel recognition typically appears inside scam adve...
Natural infection and mRNA vaccination both generate spike protein exposure but reported persistence and clearance differ by study, patient group and measurement method: some ultrasensitive assays fou...
Large, multi-year surveillance and reviews continue to find no unexpected, widespread long-term harms from mRNA COVID-19 vaccines, though rare adverse events (notably myocarditis in young males) remai...
Peer‑reviewed clinical research has both supported and questioned broad claims about intermittent fasting (IF); large systematic reviews and network meta‑analyses generally find IF produces weight los...
Current reporting shows a wide gap between Israeli and Palestinian tallies: Palestinian health authorities and UN-linked counts place Gaza deaths in the tens of thousands (e.g., 66,288 to ~84,000 in d...
Claims that "Indians are better at maths" mix historical achievements, concentrated contemporary strengths, and uneven learning outcomes. Ancient and medieval Indian mathematicians made foundational c...
Official Gaza health authorities and multiple media outlets report a Gaza death toll in the high tens of thousands: Gaza’s health ministry and Reuters cite “more than 67,000” killed , while AP and PBS...
Large, population-level cohort analyses linking COVID-19 vaccination to overall cancer incidence are emerging and contested: a South Korea retrospective cohort in Biomarker Research reported higher 1‑...
Reporting shows the Trump administration enacted multiple policies and unilateral actions that sharply reduced how many NIH projects keep or receive funding and how large awards are — for example, ana...
Fact‑checkers verify or debunk leaked‑document claims about agencies like NASA by isolating verifiable assertions inside the leak, seeking independent primary sources such as agency records or FOIA lo...
Several commodity markets have shifted or oscillated between “paper” pricing dominated by futures, indices and financialized instruments and periods where physical fundamentals—inventory, deliverable ...
Neuralink began first-in-human, early-feasibility trials in 2024 after FDA clearance and publicly announced its first implant in late January 2024, reporting users can move cursors, play games and ope...
I found no peer‑reviewed publications or registered clinical trials in the supplied results that explicitly list “Neurocept investigators” as authors or investigators; available sources instead show c...
No credible reporting in the provided sources shows Dr. Ben Carson has recently endorsed any pharmaceutical or medical treatment; multiple fact-checks say social posts claiming he endorsed CBD, erecti...