AAP FactCheck Articles
Crewed flight altitude claim is a space oddity
A moon landing conspiracy theorist says humans can't fly higher than 620 kilometres above earth.
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UK data skewed to claim vaccines raise child mortality rates
Anti-vaccination campaigners are misusing British figures to assert children receiving COVID-19 vaccines are more likely to die.
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Sunny outlook on global warming's causes denies scientific evidence
A social media post says carbon dioxide has nothing to do with climate change and claims "the Sun is the cause".
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Processed foods contain human fetal cells claim is pure junk
A meme's assertion that food flavourings are made from aborted babies is hard to swallow.
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Cold, hard facts missing from Antarctic cooling post
Scientists pour cold water over a claim that Antarctica has been getting colder over the past 40 years.
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Climate sceptic's shot at Aussie data misses net warming facts
Two cooler La Niña years have been cherry-picked to claim the temperature in Australia hasn't changed in the past decade.
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Scientists never warmed to the idea of global cooling
A Facebook user reheats misinformation that the majority of climate experts in the 1970s believed we were headed for an ice age.
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Victorian COVID update a data dilemma for Instagram group
A post misinterprets Victorian vaccination figures to claim over 94 per cent who received the first two doses have the virus.
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Dutton misleads with Shorten Robodebt claim
The coalition leader has told reporters the Robodebt scheme began under the previous Labor government.
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Brain damage link to MSG a salty dose of misinformation
An alternative medicine and wellness advocate claims the common food enhancing salt causes "micro-strokes".
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Microwave meme cooks up cancer food fears
A social media post claims cooking your food in a microwave oven can increase cancerous cells.
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Injection of truth required for vaccine illness claim
A social media post has taken aim at a report on The Project.
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Nanowires crossed in claim linking patent to 5G and COVID-19
A US conspiracy theorist says a chemist patented a device to allow 5G radiation to control coronavirus particles in 2015.
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Greens senator wrong on Indigenous consultation claim
Dorinda Cox claimed 60 per cent of participants in the First Nations Regional Dialogue events were non-Indigenous.
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Germ theory denialists are spreading poxy misinformation
The COVID-19 pandemic has led to wacky pseudoscience from the 1940s being recycled to claim germs don't cause illness.
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Doctored 'communism' banner spins the truth
Top Marx for the photoshop effort but there's no revolution on the cards in New Zealand, just a digitally altered image.
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Wee problem with claim drinking urine cures diseases
Experts say the liquid bodily waste is mostly salty water and consuming it has no medicinal value.
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HAARP weather control conspiracy is off in the clouds
A social media conspiracy theory grossly overestimates the power of a US research facility.
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Claim COVID vaccines are deadlier than virus is jibber-jabber
An anti-vaccination group's legal advisor is just plain wrong on his tally of jab-related COVID-19 deaths.
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Sideways view of global temperatures is nonsense
Despite social media claims to contrary, data shows that temperatures have increased significantly over the past 25 years.
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